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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Well, in a perfect world - the guy would be able to track every single thing we can think of...but he can only do so much, I suppose. I don't hold that against him.
And in fact, I don't support - at all - dog food trials/research across the board or think it's categorically a great thing bc those trials can (and have) result in animal cruelty and very poorly run trials/research where the dogs are actually maltreated. "Research" doesn't always translate to "good research". In addition, we should *not* always need food trials bc of the current inferences we should now be able to make regarding several common ingredients.
An analogy is like w/ mascara testing on rabbits - we should not ever have to do this again like we did in the past bc we now have enough inferences / proven-safe-ingredients to create products without forcing research. |
But in order to know if our dogs are getting what they need there needs to be trails. I think it's different then testing mascara and stuff because when done right it's feeding the dog food and then testing to see if there getting what the dogs need and how the dog is doing on the food. That's important to me because I don't want to feed my dog a food that might be missing stuff my dog needs. A lot of these holistic foods that pop up are just a recipe put together with no vets on staff or anything. People do need to know it's more then just how the food is rated.