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>>>>>I can't get the link to work.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Debbie,

nor could i, they must be having troubles somewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

>>>>>Is it an old link?

 

 

 

 

 

No.

 

This is similar though.

The piece between the ***** is my contribution.

 

Regards, Dorothy.

 

^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^

 

Veterinary Alternative Can Help Your Pet

From the May 1998 issue of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE magazine

 

 

The Poisons in Pet Food

By John Anderson

 

A homeopath of our acquaintance, who specializes in animal health, recently

reported that nearly all of her new cases are dogs and cats with cancer.

This is a most unusual and alarming trend, she told us. One of the reasons

American dogs and cats are getting very sick can be found in the pet foods

they eat every day. The realities of animal health aren't much different

than human health: if you consume a diet of toxins, eventually you will get

terribly sick.

 

Despite the appealing blandishments of pet food advertisements with their

claims of providing " complete and balanced nutrition, " if you're not

exceedingly circumspect, you may end up feeding your pet chicken heads, road

kills, spoiled or moldy grains, cancerous material cut from slaughterhouse

animals, tissue high in hormone or pesticide residues, and even shredded

Styrofoam packaging, metal ID tags and minced flea collars.

 

Don't expect the food label to be any true guide to the product's contents.

The list of ingredients on that bag of dry pet food or can of " meat " can

mask the toxic horrors behind innocuous-sounding phrases such as " meat

meal, " " bone meal, " and " meat by-products. " It's the substances you don't

know about in that can of pet food that may sicken or even kill your pet.

 

Rendering Garbage Into Pet Food-Rendering is the process of grinding up and

then melting down or cooking scrap material from animals. The final products

of this process-meat and bone meal and squeezed-out-fats-are sold primarily

to pet food companies.

 

The list of materials that go into the rendering process is extensive and

horrific. When cattle, sheep and poultry are slaughtered for human

consumption, the parts deemed unsuitable for eating-heads (including growth

hormone implants in cattle), skin, fat containing pesticide residues,

toenails, hair or feathers, joints, hooves, stomach and bowels-are rendered.

 

Other animal parts sent to rendering plants include cancerous tissues,

worm-infested organs, contaminated blood and blood clots. Compounding these

toxins, slaughterhouses add carbolic acid and fuel oil to these remnants as

a way of marking these foods as unfit for human consumption.

 

Slaughterhouses aren't the only source for animals that end up rendered.

Animals classified as " 4-D " (dead, diseased, dying and disabled)-that is,

too unhealthy for human consumption-are rendered. These include animals with

residues of antibiotics, such as chloramphenical and sulfamethazine, that

are commonly used in meat production.

 

Road-kill animals and some deceased zoo animals are also sent to rendering

plants. A report in the San Francisco Chronicle (February 19, 1990)

presented evidence that dead pets from animal clinics and shelters are

carted away to be rendered-with their name tags and flea collars intact.

Other items tossed into the rendering " soup pot " are rancid grease from

restaurants and supermarket meats that are no longer fresh (including their

Styrofoam and shrinkwrap packaging).

*****this grease is actually the *icing* sprayed on the dried kibble*****

 

All of this material is slowly ground up at the rendering plant, then

chipped or shredded, and cooked for up to an hour at 220 degrees F to 270

degrees F. The fat or tallow separates during the cooking and is removed.

What's left over is then pressed to remove all moisture and crushed into

what is misleadingly called " bone meal " or " meat meal. "

 

Meat and poultry by-products, another major category of pet food

ingredients, are the unrendered parts of the animal left over after

slaughter, everything deemed unfit for human consumption. In cattle and

sheep, this includes the brain, liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, blood, bones,

fatty tissue, stomachs and intestines. The items on this list that would

normally be consumed by humans, such as the liver, would have to be diseased

or contaminated before they could be designated for pet food. Poultry

by-products include heads, feet, intestines, undeveloped eggs, chicken

feathers and egg shells.

 

Other items counted as acceptable protein sources and included under

" by-products " are dried animal blood and hair, dehydrated stomach contents

from cattle and dried pig and poultry excrement. As explicit as the facts

about pet food contents may be, you won't find them listed on the label; the

truth about these poisons is conveniently buried under the rubric

" by-products. "

 

The primary ingredient in many dry commercial pet foods is not protein but

cereal. Corn and wheat are the most common grains used but, as with the meat

sources, the nutritious parts of the grain are generally present only in

trace amounts. The corn gluten meal or wheat middlings added to pet foods

are the leftovers after the grain has been processed for human use,

containing little nutritional value. Or they may be grain that is too moldy

for humans to eat, so it's incorporated into pet food. Mycotoxins,

potentially deadly fungal toxins that multiply in moldy grains, have been

found in pet foods in recent years. In 1995, Nature's Recipe recalled tons

of their dog food after dogs became ill from eating it. The food was found

to contain vomitoxin, a mycotoxin.

 

Perfecting the Contamination - The nutritional needs of pets are hardly the

concern of most manufacturers. Commercial pet foods are usually concocted

with the profit margins in mind, and nothing else. A new food may be tested

to see whether animals like it (eat it in large quantities), but not whether

it is good for them. For dry foods, ingredients (meat meal, by-products,

cereals) are mixed together with water or steam, pushed through a machine

called an extruder which gives the food its shape, then cooked at high

temperatures and dried. To make the food palatable to your pet, fats-often

the tallow separated during the rendering process-is sprayed on after the

food is dried. Wet foods are made from raw ingredients ground up with

additives and preservatives. " Chunky " canned foods are run through an

extruder to produce the look of natural meats.

 

Harmful chemicals and preservatives are added to both wet and dry food. For

example, sodium nitrite, a coloring agent and preservative and potential

carcinogen, is a common additive. Other preservatives include ethoxyquin (an

insecticide that has been linked to liver cancer) and BHA and BHT, chemicals

also suspected of causing cancer. The average dog can consume as much as 26

pounds of preservatives every year from eating commercial dog foods.

 

The manufacturing process destroys most of whatever minimal nutritional

content remained from the dubious list of ingredients. Even when the

companies include more healthy ingredients at the outset, manufacturing

depletes the nutritional value. " Processing is the wild card in nutritional

value that is, by the large, simply ignored, " states R L Wysong, DVM, a

veterinarian who founded Wysong Corporation to produce healthful pet foods.

Proteins, enzymes, vitamins and minerals and fatty acids present in the

foods can all be altered or destroyed by the manufacturing process, leading

to nutritional deficiencies in the pets eating these foods.

 

Nobody's Watching the Pet Bowl-No consumer agencies are looking out for your

pet's health interests. The pet food industry is virtually unregulated

regarding food composition. In fact, information about the poisons in pet

foods is not easily obtained; hence its shock-value when it's finally

revealed to the unsuspecting public.

 

The problem is that only the label, not content, of pet foods is regulated.

The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), a group of

federal and state bureaucrats, define the ingredients listed on the labels o

f pet foods, but they do no testing on the foods themselves and have no

enforcement authority. So don't expect their semantics to keep your pet

healthy.

 

The United States Department of Agriculture, a government agency you might

think would be watching the pet food industry, only oversees food for human

consumption, letting pet food makers off the leash. The Food and Drug

Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM) concerns itself

mainly with labeling: manufacturers must substantiate any health claims they

make for their pet food, but they aren't asked to prove that their food is

not quietly toxic to pets. While the FDA/CVM can prohibit an ingredient's

use if it is proven detrimental to health, they do no ingredient quality

testing on pet foods, so how will they ever know? The claims of " complete

and balanced nutrition " on many commercial pet foods are based on AAFCO

nutrient profiles. What isn't addressed on the label is the quality and

bioavailablity of these nutrients. For instance, the label may state that

the food contains a " minimum of 65% protein, " but is it clean and can it be

absorbed? The labels will never tell you. " Although the AAFCO profiles are

better than nothing, they provide false securities, " states Quinton Rogers,

DVM, a veterinarian with the Department of Molecular Biosciences, Veterinary

School of Medicine, University of California at Davis. " There is virtually

no information on the bioavailability of nutrients for companion animals in

many of the common dietary ingredients used in pet foods. "

 

110 Million Sick Pets?-There are an estimated 55 million dogs and 63 million

cats living in American households. Given the appalling condition of most

commercial pet foods, it's a wonder there are any healthy pets walking

around anymore. " Nature never designed canine or feline kidneys to handle

the volume of impurities that come their way, " states veterinarian Al

Plechner, DVM, author of Pet Allergies. " The result is fatigued, irritated,

damaged and deteriorated kidneys after several years of life. Left

untreated, the toxic buildup leads to vomiting, loss of appetite, uremic

poisoning and death. "

 

Recent studies have shown processed foods to be a factor in increasing

numbers of pets suffering from cancer, arthritis, obesity, dental disease

and heart disease, comments Dr Wysong. Dull or unhealthy coats are a common

problem with cats and dogs and poor diet is usually the cause, according to

many veterinarians and breeders. The AAFCO nutrient profiles may play a role

here, in the " balanced " nutritional levels they recommend may be inadequate

for an individual animal.

 

It is estimated that up to two million companion animals suffer from food

allergies. Dr Plechner believes that the commercial pet foods are a primary

cause and can contribute to a host of health problems. " Among pets, there is

a widespread intolerance of commercial foods, " he states. " This rejection

can show up either as violent sickness or chronic health problems. It often

triggers a hypersensitivity and overreaction to flea and insect bites,

pollens, soaps, sprays and environmental contaminants. "

 

Feline urological syndrome, a chronic condition similar to cystitis in

humans (characterized by frequent urination with blood in the urine), is an

increasingly common and potentially fatal illness in cats. It has been

linked to elevated levels of ash and phosphorus, two substances commonly

found in commercial pet foods. High iodine levels are seen as a contributing

factor for thyroid tumors in cats. " New diseases are being discovered that

are linked to '100% complete' diets, " states Dr Wysong. These include

" polymyopathy (a muscle disorder) from low potassium levels, dilated

cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disorder) from low taurine levels, arthritic

and skin diseases from acid/base and zinc malnutrition and chronic eczema

from essential fatty acid malnutrition, " he reports. Given the high

possibility that your favorite pet foods may be slowly poisoning your cat or

dog, it's crucial that you find brands you can trust to be animal friendly.

 

How to Find Animal-Friendly Pet Foods-Given the high possibility that your

favorite pet foods may be slowly poisoning your cat or dog, it's crucial

that you find brands you can trust to be animal friendly. While the

following review of products covers only a selection of available healthful

pet foods and does not represent an endorsement by Alternative Medicine, the

claims of the manufacturers suggest they're putting the health of pets

first.

 

Pat McKay Animal Nutrition-Cats and dogs in the wild don't eat cooked or

processed foods, so it should not be a surprise that domesticated animals

fed these products are less than healthy. That's the philosophy behind the

pet foods from Pat McKay, which consist of 75% fresh raw meat, poultry or

fish and 25% vegetables. Meat includes beef, beef heart, chicken, chicken

liver, lamb, lamb kidney, turkey and tilapia fish. The vegetable component

is a mixture of carrots, sweet potatoes, cabbage, squash, celery, broccoli,

cauliflower, turnips, jicama, chard, kale and parsley. Pat McKay pet foods

are sold frozen to ensure freshness. Pat McKay recommends that a calcium

supplement (Calcium+Plus, sold separately by them) be added to their pet

foods. Other available supplements include Aloe Concentrate, AnimaLife

(vitamins and minerals), and A+Plus (essential fatty acids).

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Re: dry kibble..Debbie & Alobar

 

 

>>>>>I can't get the link to work.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Debbie,

nor could i, they must be having troubles somewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

>>>>>Is it an old link?

 

 

 

 

 

No.

 

This is similar though.

The piece between the ***** is my contribution.

 

Regards, Dorothy.

 

^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^

 

Veterinary Alternative Can Help Your Pet

>From the May 1998 issue of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE magazine

 

 

The Poisons in Pet Food

By John Anderson

 

A homeopath of our acquaintance, who specializes in animal health, recently

reported that nearly all of her new cases are dogs and cats with cancer.

This is a most unusual and alarming trend, she told us. One of the reasons

American dogs and cats are getting very sick can be found in the pet foods

they eat every day. The realities of animal health aren't much different

than human health: if you consume a diet of toxins, eventually you will get

terribly sick.

 

Despite the appealing blandishments of pet food advertisements with their

claims of providing " complete and balanced nutrition, " if you're not

exceedingly circumspect, you may end up feeding your pet chicken heads, road

kills, spoiled or moldy grains, cancerous material cut from slaughterhouse

animals, tissue high in hormone or pesticide residues, and even shredded

Styrofoam packaging, metal ID tags and minced flea collars.

 

Don't expect the food label to be any true guide to the product's contents.

The list of ingredients on that bag of dry pet food or can of " meat " can

mask the toxic horrors behind innocuous-sounding phrases such as " meat

meal, " " bone meal, " and " meat by-products. " It's the substances you don't

know about in that can of pet food that may sicken or even kill your pet.

 

Rendering Garbage Into Pet Food-Rendering is the process of grinding up and

then melting down or cooking scrap material from animals. The final products

of this process-meat and bone meal and squeezed-out-fats-are sold primarily

to pet food companies.

 

The list of materials that go into the rendering process is extensive and

horrific. When cattle, sheep and poultry are slaughtered for human

consumption, the parts deemed unsuitable for eating-heads (including growth

hormone implants in cattle), skin, fat containing pesticide residues,

toenails, hair or feathers, joints, hooves, stomach and bowels-are rendered.

 

Other animal parts sent to rendering plants include cancerous tissues,

worm-infested organs, contaminated blood and blood clots. Compounding these

toxins, slaughterhouses add carbolic acid and fuel oil to these remnants as

a way of marking these foods as unfit for human consumption.

 

Slaughterhouses aren't the only source for animals that end up rendered.

Animals classified as " 4-D " (dead, diseased, dying and disabled)-that is,

too unhealthy for human consumption-are rendered. These include animals with

residues of antibiotics, such as chloramphenical and sulfamethazine, that

are commonly used in meat production.

 

Road-kill animals and some deceased zoo animals are also sent to rendering

plants. A report in the San Francisco Chronicle (February 19, 1990)

presented evidence that dead pets from animal clinics and shelters are

carted away to be rendered-with their name tags and flea collars intact.

Other items tossed into the rendering " soup pot " are rancid grease from

restaurants and supermarket meats that are no longer fresh (including their

Styrofoam and shrinkwrap packaging).

*****this grease is actually the *icing* sprayed on the dried kibble*****

 

All of this material is slowly ground up at the rendering plant, then

chipped or shredded, and cooked for up to an hour at 220 degrees F to 270

degrees F. The fat or tallow separates during the cooking and is removed.

What's left over is then pressed to remove all moisture and crushed into

what is misleadingly called " bone meal " or " meat meal. "

 

Meat and poultry by-products, another major category of pet food

ingredients, are the unrendered parts of the animal left over after

slaughter, everything deemed unfit for human consumption. In cattle and

sheep, this includes the brain, liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, blood, bones,

fatty tissue, stomachs and intestines. The items on this list that would

normally be consumed by humans, such as the liver, would have to be diseased

or contaminated before they could be designated for pet food. Poultry

by-products include heads, feet, intestines, undeveloped eggs, chicken

feathers and egg shells.

 

Other items counted as acceptable protein sources and included under

" by-products " are dried animal blood and hair, dehydrated stomach contents

from cattle and dried pig and poultry excrement. As explicit as the facts

about pet food contents may be, you won't find them listed on the label; the

truth about these poisons is conveniently buried under the rubric

" by-products. "

 

The primary ingredient in many dry commercial pet foods is not protein but

cereal. Corn and wheat are the most common grains used but, as with the meat

sources, the nutritious parts of the grain are generally present only in

trace amounts. The corn gluten meal or wheat middlings added to pet foods

are the leftovers after the grain has been processed for human use,

containing little nutritional value. Or they may be grain that is too moldy

for humans to eat, so it's incorporated into pet food. Mycotoxins,

potentially deadly fungal toxins that multiply in moldy grains, have been

found in pet foods in recent years. In 1995, Nature's Recipe recalled tons

of their dog food after dogs became ill from eating it. The food was found

to contain vomitoxin, a mycotoxin.

 

Perfecting the Contamination - The nutritional needs of pets are hardly the

concern of most manufacturers. Commercial pet foods are usually concocted

with the profit margins in mind, and nothing else. A new food may be tested

to see whether animals like it (eat it in large quantities), but not whether

it is good for them. For dry foods, ingredients (meat meal, by-products,

cereals) are mixed together with water or steam, pushed through a machine

called an extruder which gives the food its shape, then cooked at high

temperatures and dried. To make the food palatable to your pet, fats-often

the tallow separated during the rendering process-is sprayed on after the

food is dried. Wet foods are made from raw ingredients ground up with

additives and preservatives. " Chunky " canned foods are run through an

extruder to produce the look of natural meats.

 

Harmful chemicals and preservatives are added to both wet and dry food. For

example, sodium nitrite, a coloring agent and preservative and potential

carcinogen, is a common additive. Other preservatives include ethoxyquin (an

insecticide that has been linked to liver cancer) and BHA and BHT, chemicals

also suspected of causing cancer. The average dog can consume as much as 26

pounds of preservatives every year from eating commercial dog foods.

 

The manufacturing process destroys most of whatever minimal nutritional

content remained from the dubious list of ingredients. Even when the

companies include more healthy ingredients at the outset, manufacturing

depletes the nutritional value. " Processing is the wild card in nutritional

value that is, by the large, simply ignored, " states R L Wysong, DVM, a

veterinarian who founded Wysong Corporation to produce healthful pet foods.

Proteins, enzymes, vitamins and minerals and fatty acids present in the

foods can all be altered or destroyed by the manufacturing process, leading

to nutritional deficiencies in the pets eating these foods.

 

Nobody's Watching the Pet Bowl-No consumer agencies are looking out for your

pet's health interests. The pet food industry is virtually unregulated

regarding food composition. In fact, information about the poisons in pet

foods is not easily obtained; hence its shock-value when it's finally

revealed to the unsuspecting public.

 

The problem is that only the label, not content, of pet foods is regulated.

The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), a group of

federal and state bureaucrats, define the ingredients listed on the labels o

f pet foods, but they do no testing on the foods themselves and have no

enforcement authority. So don't expect their semantics to keep your pet

healthy.

 

The United States Department of Agriculture, a government agency you might

think would be watching the pet food industry, only oversees food for human

consumption, letting pet food makers off the leash. The Food and Drug

Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM) concerns itself

mainly with labeling: manufacturers must substantiate any health claims they

make for their pet food, but they aren't asked to prove that their food is

not quietly toxic to pets. While the FDA/CVM can prohibit an ingredient's

use if it is proven detrimental to health, they do no ingredient quality

testing on pet foods, so how will they ever know? The claims of " complete

and balanced nutrition " on many commercial pet foods are based on AAFCO

nutrient profiles. What isn't addressed on the label is the quality and

bioavailablity of these nutrients. For instance, the label may state that

the food contains a " minimum of 65% protein, " but is it clean and can it be

absorbed? The labels will never tell you. " Although the AAFCO profiles are

better than nothing, they provide false securities, " states Quinton Rogers,

DVM, a veterinarian with the Department of Molecular Biosciences, Veterinary

School of Medicine, University of California at Davis. " There is virtually

no information on the bioavailability of nutrients for companion animals in

many of the common dietary ingredients used in pet foods. "

 

110 Million Sick Pets?-There are an estimated 55 million dogs and 63 million

cats living in American households. Given the appalling condition of most

commercial pet foods, it's a wonder there are any healthy pets walking

around anymore. " Nature never designed canine or feline kidneys to handle

the volume of impurities that come their way, " states veterinarian Al

Plechner, DVM, author of Pet Allergies. " The result is fatigued, irritated,

damaged and deteriorated kidneys after several years of life. Left

untreated, the toxic buildup leads to vomiting, loss of appetite, uremic

poisoning and death. "

 

Recent studies have shown processed foods to be a factor in increasing

numbers of pets suffering from cancer, arthritis, obesity, dental disease

and heart disease, comments Dr Wysong. Dull or unhealthy coats are a common

problem with cats and dogs and poor diet is usually the cause, according to

many veterinarians and breeders. The AAFCO nutrient profiles may play a role

here, in the " balanced " nutritional levels they recommend may be inadequate

for an individual animal.

 

It is estimated that up to two million companion animals suffer from food

allergies. Dr Plechner believes that the commercial pet foods are a primary

cause and can contribute to a host of health problems. " Among pets, there is

a widespread intolerance of commercial foods, " he states. " This rejection

can show up either as violent sickness or chronic health problems. It often

triggers a hypersensitivity and overreaction to flea and insect bites,

pollens, soaps, sprays and environmental contaminants. "

 

Feline urological syndrome, a chronic condition similar to cystitis in

humans (characterized by frequent urination with blood in the urine), is an

increasingly common and potentially fatal illness in cats. It has been

linked to elevated levels of ash and phosphorus, two substances commonly

found in commercial pet foods. High iodine levels are seen as a contributing

factor for thyroid tumors in cats. " New diseases are being discovered that

are linked to '100% complete' diets, " states Dr Wysong. These include

" polymyopathy (a muscle disorder) from low potassium levels, dilated

cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disorder) from low taurine levels, arthritic

and skin diseases from acid/base and zinc malnutrition and chronic eczema

from essential fatty acid malnutrition, " he reports. Given the high

possibility that your favorite pet foods may be slowly poisoning your cat or

dog, it's crucial that you find brands you can trust to be animal friendly.

 

How to Find Animal-Friendly Pet Foods-Given the high possibility that your

favorite pet foods may be slowly poisoning your cat or dog, it's crucial

that you find brands you can trust to be animal friendly. While the

following review of products covers only a selection of available healthful

pet foods and does not represent an endorsement by Alternative Medicine, the

claims of the manufacturers suggest they're putting the health of pets

first.

 

Pat McKay Animal Nutrition-Cats and dogs in the wild don't eat cooked or

processed foods, so it should not be a surprise that domesticated animals

fed these products are less than healthy. That's the philosophy behind the

pet foods from Pat McKay, which consist of 75% fresh raw meat, poultry or

fish and 25% vegetables. Meat includes beef, beef heart, chicken, chicken

liver, lamb, lamb kidney, turkey and tilapia fish. The vegetable component

is a mixture of carrots, sweet potatoes, cabbage, squash, celery, broccoli,

cauliflower, turnips, jicama, chard, kale and parsley. Pat McKay pet foods

are sold frozen to ensure freshness. Pat McKay recommends that a calcium

supplement (Calcium+Plus, sold separately by them) be added to their pet

foods. Other available supplements include Aloe Concentrate, AnimaLife

(vitamins and minerals), and A+Plus (essential fatty acids).

 

 

 

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