Chances are that you have at least once stumbled upon a website or advertisement proclaiming that your pet's commercial dog food is wholly inadequate, or worse, killing your dog. These internet smear campaigns started shortly after the dog food recall scare in 2005 due to Aflotoxins in a variety of pet foods. Aflotoxins are produced by a fungus, and in this case the fungus was growing on a bad batch of corn, which unfortunately was used in a shipment of pet food.
The effect of noncompliance with the customary internal quality control along with tests procedures of a certain company, not to be named for purposes of confidentiality, was having 100 dogs and a cat sick and dead. Because of this, improvement in quality control measures was done by that company along with the other companies.
Safer and healthier supply of our pet's chow has been the consequence. Compared to dogs a decade ago, dogs today do live much longer, a great difference which can be accredited to huge advancements in animal nutrition. And due to longer lives of dogs, new pets to be adopted became infrequent, a not so illustrious reason for the congestion of animal shelters.
Critics will argue that if the food is so nutritious, then why do they have to spray it after processing to give it more nutritional value?
The answer is simply that micro-nutrients, such as vitamin-a for example, must be added evenly to the food and in precise and minute quantities. They are added in such a manner to ensure that every morsel is as nutritionally balanced as the next.
The only caveat to the commercialization of dog food is that there are loopholes in the regulation of dog food brands that are only sold instate. If the manufacturer does not ship his pet food product across state lines, then his product is not has heavily regulated as some of the larger, nationwide brands.
Companies will not profit from killing their clients pets. They want nothing more than for your pets to live for decades, so that you continue to purchase their product on a regular basis. As terrible as that may sound, it is the truth. It is the motivation behind the rapid advances in animal nutrition in recent years. There is no "dog food conspiracy".
The effect of noncompliance with the customary internal quality control along with tests procedures of a certain company, not to be named for purposes of confidentiality, was having 100 dogs and a cat sick and dead. Because of this, improvement in quality control measures was done by that company along with the other companies.
Safer and healthier supply of our pet's chow has been the consequence. Compared to dogs a decade ago, dogs today do live much longer, a great difference which can be accredited to huge advancements in animal nutrition. And due to longer lives of dogs, new pets to be adopted became infrequent, a not so illustrious reason for the congestion of animal shelters.
Critics will argue that if the food is so nutritious, then why do they have to spray it after processing to give it more nutritional value?
The answer is simply that micro-nutrients, such as vitamin-a for example, must be added evenly to the food and in precise and minute quantities. They are added in such a manner to ensure that every morsel is as nutritionally balanced as the next.
The only caveat to the commercialization of dog food is that there are loopholes in the regulation of dog food brands that are only sold instate. If the manufacturer does not ship his pet food product across state lines, then his product is not has heavily regulated as some of the larger, nationwide brands.
Companies will not profit from killing their clients pets. They want nothing more than for your pets to live for decades, so that you continue to purchase their product on a regular basis. As terrible as that may sound, it is the truth. It is the motivation behind the rapid advances in animal nutrition in recent years. There is no "dog food conspiracy".
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