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"Since there are no safety regulations and only minimal inspections for these products, you can never quite know what you will get. The pet food and toy scandals and reported instances of toxic food and toothpaste from China have shown that we need to be cautious about foods and supplements that originate from places we know nothing about. Conclusion: The vitamin euphoria has hit the world's population at a time when there are no reliable methods to determine if and when someone suffers from a vitamin deficiency." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Retail dry pet food frequently contains ruminant meat and bone meal. Out-of-date dry cat and dog food is sometimes sold as salvage and ends up in cattle feed. My own comments on the feeding of chicken litter to cattle, which are posted at http://www.madcownews.org, are as follows: This is fascinating news for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that chicken litter is being fed to cattle in the U.S. and, therefore, cows are ingesting highly toxic arsenic that's contained in the chicken litter." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"So since pet food is considered animal feed, the use of EQ is also permitted in pet food. The fish industry uses high levels of EQ; factory workers exposed to it exhibited side effects similar to those of agent orange: a dramatic rise in liver or kidney damage, cancerous skin lesions, hair loss, blindness, leukemia, fetal abnormalities, and chronic diarrhea. In animals, EQ has been linked to immune deficiency syndrome; spleen, stomach, and liver cancers; and a host of allergies.10 Many factors can lead to cancer." - Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A., Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures (Get the book.) "Many preservatives make their way into pet food at rendering plants before the meat is even sent to the manufacturer. An analysis of several pet foods labeled "chemical free" or "all natural ingredients" found synthetic antioxidants in all samples.5 With continued use, low levels of these synthetic antioxidants may build up in the tissues; ingestion of small doses over time may be just as toxic as a single large dose. About 60 percent of all herbicides, 90 percent of all fungicides, and 30 percent of all insecticides are considered to be cancer causing in and of themselves." - Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A., Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures (Get the book.) "So since pet food is considered animal feed, the use of EQ is also permitted in pet food. The fish industry uses high levels of EQ; factory workers exposed to it exhibited side effects similar to those of agent orange: a dramatic rise in liver or kidney damage, cancerous skin lesions, hair loss, blindness, leukemia, fetal abnormalities, and chronic diarrhea. In animals, EQ has been linked to immune deficiency syndrome; spleen, stomach, and liver cancers; and a host of allergies.10 Many factors can lead to cancer." - Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A., Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures (Get the book.)

"Your typical pet will do nicely on typical pet food. "There are a lot of marketing gimmicks in the pet food industry that aren't necessarily in the best interest of the dog," says Dr. Donoghue. It's not always a good idea, for example, to reduce protein in the diet of a healthy old dog. Check with your vet before putting your pudgy dog on a reducing diet, and then just feed it less, suggests Dr. Donoghue. You don't need to buy an expensive "reducing diet" food. Also, she says, there's no evidence that the so-called low-ash cat foods help to prevent cats from getting urinary disease." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"The images that pet food manufacturers promulgate—images of whole chicken, choice cuts of beef, fresh grains, vitamins, and minerals that meet all your pet's needs for a healthy existence— are a bit deceiving. What they don't tell you is that instead of whole chicken, manufacturers have substituted chicken heads, feet, intestines, and bowels. The choice cuts of beef have been replaced with cow brains, tongue, esophagus, ears, and any other part that is condemned for human consumption. Grains used in pet foods have not been tested for impurities such as mold or pesticides." - Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A., Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures (Get the book.)

"In fact, the dry pet food you buy in the supermarket is manufactured for your convenience as much as Fifi's and Fluffy's health. It's the nibble-at-will, no-can-opening, no-greasy-spoon, no-smelly-bowl, no-budget-busting pet food. It has lower levels of fat than canned meat because the fat seeps through the paper bags (you don't want that greasy bag on your car upholstery or in your kitchen cabinet). Fifi and Fluffy get to eat more for your money, thus getting pleasantly full tummies, while less protein, fat and digestibility keep their figures from becoming unbecomingly porcine." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.) "As in human food labeling, pet food ingredients must be listed in descending order of quantity. "Foods with labels listing meat first are better than those with grain listed first," says Dr. Donoghue. The new premium dry foods are as good as so-called canned meat "suppers." But there are good ingredients and bad ingredients in each type, she says, so you should evaluate them by looking at the label. Dry food has its advantages. In fact, the dry pet food you buy in the supermarket is manufactured for your convenience as much as Fifi's and Fluffy's health." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"FDA officials said that most of the by-products ended up in pet food, but this fate cannot be confirmed (and would be unlikely to reassure pet owners, regardless). Inspections revealed that 20% of about 2,500 feed mills handling meat-and-bone meal took no precautions to prevent the meal from getting into animal feed. No federal agency tests for prohibited material in feed for cattle. Worse, the bans on use of meat-and-bone meal do not apply to other farm animals such as pigs or chickens because officials assume that feed for these animals never enters the food supply for cows or people." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"An FDA review committee acknowledged desserts, pastry, pet food, problems, but said evidence of harm was not "consistent" or sausage "substantial." Like other dyes, Red No. 40 is used mainly in junk foods. þ YELLOW No. 5 The second most widely used coloring causes allergic Artificial coloring reactions, primarily in aspirin-sensitive persons. This dye is the Gelatin dessert, candy, pet food, only one that must be labeled by name on food labels. baked goods X YELLOW No." - Ralph Golan, M.D., Optimal Wellness (Get the book.)

"She will eat canned or dry food if it is a natural brand, but if I give her pet food from the supermarket, she paws around it like she's trying to cover up something in her litter box. Most large corporations that manufacture commercial pet food are concerned about providing an "adequate" product at a low price. They get their protein from cheap "4-D meats"—from animals that are already dead, dying, diseased, or disabled when they're sold. Then they add sugar so your pet will like it and artificial color so you'll think it looks fresh." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"IFF s snack and savory lab is responsible for the flavor of potato chips, corn chips, breads, crackers, breakfast cereals, and pet food. The confectionery lab devises the flavor for ice cream, cookies, candies, toothpastes, mouthwashes, and antacids... In addition to being the worlds largest flavor company, IFF manufactures the smell of six of the ten best-selling fine perfumes in the United States, including Estee Lauder's Beautiful, Clinique's Happy, Lancome s Tresor, and Calvin Klein s Eternity..." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"Allura Red AC is found in pastry, candy, pet food, sausage, soda pop, and desserts. The National Cancer Institute has reported that that p-credine, a chemical used in the Red No. 40 compound, is carcinogenic in laboratory animals. FD&C Yellow No. 5 (Tartrazine) Derived from coal tar, FD&C Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) is America's second most popular food color. It is found in candy, pet food, soft drinks, cheese, crackers, and baked goods. FD&C Yellow No. 5 may cause allergic reactions, especially in aspirin-sensitive persons." - Marcia Zimmerman, C.N., The A.D.D. Nutrition Solution: A Drug-Free Thirty-Day Plan (Get the book.)

"Other pet owners may want to use canned pet food, baby food, or broth to get their animals to eat it. A great success story involving a horse was told to me by one woman who treated her 20-year-old horse named "Lad" for melanoma with Protocel. Lad was a white Arabian-Bay mix (about 90 percent Arabian) and was suffering from a type of melanoma that light-skinned horses often get. Lad had melanoma spots on various parts of his body and one bulging tumor that had originated inside his right ear that was growing outward as well as inward." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"I discoveted an ironic cruelty-free twist about pet food while I was reading labels: one major brand of natutal pet food is owned by a major animal-testing corpora-tion (Science Diet is owned by Colgate-Palmolive). So read those labels for more than just the ingredients. HOMEMADE ALTERNATIVES • Raw organically grown meat. When my cat was sick, that's all she would eat; she wouldn't even take milk." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.) "Most large corporations that manufacture commercial pet food are concerned about providing an "adequate" product at a low price. They get their protein from cheap "4-D meats"—from animals that are already dead, dying, diseased, or disabled when they're sold. Then they add sugar so your pet will like it and artificial color so you'll think it looks fresh. Many pet foods claim to be "100% nutritionally complete and balanced." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Tejinder: "There are way too many chemicals in pet food that no one knows the side effects of. And the rancid fat that is used to cook a lot of this food that pets eat only complicates things more." Dr. Stefanatos: "The pesticides, preservatives, and additives in pet food reprogram the organs so their functions behave differently. No one knows the full extent of the problem, but it's there, nevertheless." The Nature of Animal Diabetes The most common form of this disease in small animals is uncomplicated diabetes mellitus, which is similar in many ways to that seen in humans." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

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