Do You Know What is in Your Dog’s Food?

How do you select your dog food? When reading the labels do you know what the ingredients listed really are?

I started my research on dog food shortly after my six year old Beagle started having seizures. I found out the dog food industry has some scary secrets that they wish would remain unknown to the general public. The problem is that now that I know I have decided I must tell the world.

I promise you I’m not going to give you a sale pitch for some high priced fancy dog food. I will explain to you how to learn how to look at the ingredients in your dog food and understand what they really are.

What would you say if I told you that just by feeding your dog correctly you could add over eight years to its life? That would mean eight more years of tail wagging, kisses and unconditional love.

It took me many hours of research, but I did find a book that explained how to decode the secret language used on dog food labels. Even though the FDA regulates dog food labeling, the regulations are not even close to what they use for people food..

The FDA’s weak regulations of dog food labeling have made it easy for the pet food industry to hide unhealthy ingredients that they use to make the food more attractive to dogs so that they’ll eat it. Some of these ingredients are actually deadly over the long term for your dogs. These regulations allow the pet food industry to play with words and unless the pet owner educates themselves there is no way to tell what is really in the dog food..

The difference between a dog food named Beef Dog Food and Beef Flavored Dog Food is that the first would contain around 70% beef (of some kind) and the second could contain 0% beef of any kind.

If your dog food says with beef or beef nuggets or even beef dinner that means your food only contains 3% beef.

The truth is the dog food industry has been allowed to deceive the pet owner into thinking they are purchasing quality ingredients, when the truth is we are purchasing ingredients not fit for human consumption.

The animal food industry is using the waste leftovers from human food production processing plants. This slop is deemed unfit for human consumption, but is sold as ingredients for pet foods.

The problem here is the FDA allows the pet food industry to label these ingredients in such a way that we think they are healthy. One example of this is the use of the words Dried Egg Products as an ingredient in your dog food. This sounds healthy enough and it is listed as a source of protein, but this ingredient is a leftover by-product that is marked unfit for human consumption.

You would be surprised the number of healthy sounding ingredients listed on dog food labels that are actually toxic waste.

Because of my finding during my many hours of research I now feed my dog’s homemade dog food, but I know this is not particle for everyone. If you are one that can’t switch to a homemade food, then it becomes even more important to learn how to correctly read a dog food label. The link below will take you to a website that I found that will explain every word listed on the label of the dog food you are using.

This is important, for the healthy of your dog you really should learn what’s in your dog food and be prepared for the next dog food recall by clicking here

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