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Originally Posted by mimimomo

I read about this awhile back: Genetics Prove Dogs Evolved Beyond Meat-Only Diets - The Right Foods for Dogs | petMD
This article was easier for me to understand (I'm not that smart loll!)

Yes, that's a review of the same article. However, the person who reviews the article for PetMD goes on to justify adding starches to a dog's diet. That's not what this research was about at all. Just because a dog CAN eat starch doesn't mean that it SHOULD eat starch. It is up to canine nutritionists to determine this, not geneticists. As Wylie's Mom so wisely stated above, I hope that dog food companies don't use this research as an excuse to add starchy fillers to their food. Such decisions should be based on nutritional studies, not genetic studies.