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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I am just wondering why this is a bad thing? Getting protein from veggies? People on vegan diets get their protein from veggies, right? rather than meat? I dont have a clue about too many peas in a dog food....I know you have different kinds of proteins...."single chain" and "double chain", etc....but it just occured to me to even wonder why veggie protein would be such an undesirable thing. If you can get all your protein from veggies rather than a meat source, is that a bad thing? |
For a dog, IMO. Yes, it is.
Did you see the recent situation where a mother was vegan and breast feeding and the baby died because they weren't getting enough/proper nutrients?
I do not agree at all with vegetarian diets for dogs unless they absolutely 100% can not eat any meat which would be a rare occurrence.
Now when I say this, I'm not talking about having to feed a food with a bagillion different meat/protein sources... it's just not desirable to be using things such as pea protein, multiple pea ingredients (i.e. splitting). Nothing wrong with 'peas' themselves. It's just when one food uses 'pea protein' 'peas' and 'pea fiber' all within the first 10 ingredients, I wonder how much is coming from meat.
When you have four or five different legumes and veggies and plant proteins up so high on the ingredient list, you know a lot of protein is coming from them.
I've had to learn a lot about they use marketing in so many of these foods to make an ingredient list look nice. In reality, a lot of these newer holistic grain-free formulas don't even contain as much meat as you'd be led to believe. Most of Royal Canin and Eukanuba formulas are using more animal protein than some "higher end" foods if you take into account ash content, how many lentils, peas, etc are being used, etc.