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"Yet the FDA says we can put it into our mouths even though it has determined that it is not safe to use in or on cat food!17 triclosan This is a synthetic antibacterial ingredient that has been compared to Agent Orange. The Environmental Protection Agency registers it as a pesticide, highly toxic to any living organism. It is also classified as a chloro-phenol. In other words, it is in a cancer-causing chemical class.18 Triclosan disrupts hormones, can affect sexual function and fertility, and may foster birth defects." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Inside the box was a "fiendish" (Schrodinger's term) device which feeds the cat food half the time, and poison the other half. Which one the cat gets depends completely on the random decay of a radioactive sample. In the laboratory is a make-believe "intelligent observer" who ponders the cat's mortality. Occasionally she opens the box. The cat's status, dead or alive, is unknowable unless and until the observer acts." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"You don't have to become a dour penny-pincher, dining on cat food and soda crackers. You can enjoy a lifestyle that is more enriching, rewarding, and empowering than your current one simply by honoring that which is dearest to you. Being honest about your habits and traits is an important firsr step. You must learn to be authentic. Begin avoiding anything that smacks of superficiality. Don't buy into the marketing hype. To borrow a trite phrase from the Reagan years, "just say no" to excess." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Nestle has a market share of approximately 11% of the dry cat food market across all channels of distribution....Nestle also adds Ralston's 28 percent share of the dog food market to the 10 percent it already has."6 It is clear that this new company will control a vast percentage of the pet food market. Pet Food Companies and Law Suits Law suits within the pet food industry surfaced in 2001. According to the Dayton Business Journal, "Nutro Products and Kal Kan Food Inc." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "These flavors, plus the added dyes, which turn the gray matter a bright red, are to give the consumer the impression that the can of dog or cat food is wholesome. BHA and BHT are two preservatives that have long been suspected as being carcinogenic. Both are chemical antioxidants that prevent the fatty contents of pet food from becoming rancid. The foods have an endless shelf life with these preservatives, In a letter to the Center for Veterinary Medicine, Wendell Belfield, DVM, addressed the dubious ingredients in pet foods." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Vitamins and Minerals in Pet Food On the labels of dog and cat food you will notice an extensive list of substances, many of which are vitamins and minerals." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "In one well-known dry cat food the ingredients on the label are listed in this order: poultry by-product meal, ground yellow corn, wheat, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, brewers rice, etc. Most people reading this label might assume that the "poultry by-product meal" is the prime ingredient providing an ample source of protein. However, this is not so. Grains in fact are the prime ingredients in the product. In the industry this labeling is called "splitting." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"You know what the scientific term is for a fat, slow mouse that is attracted by the smell of cats? cat food. Which gets T. gondii exactly where it wants to go. We mentioned a moment ago that T. gondii is thought to be largely benign in humans. Well, that is largely the case, but not always the case. First of all, people with severely compromised immune systems, like people living with HIV, are at risk for serious complications, as they are with many infections that people with a fully functioning immune system can manage." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"The cat easily learned that the door with the circles could be pushed open to reveal a bowl of cat food. But the experimenters were shocked when a radioactive brain scan revealed that this simple act of recognition and discrimination lit up 5 to 100 million of the cat's neurons at a time—one-tenth of its entire brain mass!14 This experiment showed that the same neurons must be used for many different memory networks simultaneously. Otherwise, there would be room for only ten complex tasks in the cat's entire brain." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"The problem stems from methyl mercury, which accumulates in many fish; over five times more is found in tuna cat food than is genetally found in beef cat food. 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.) "Dog and cat food uses USDA meat as its primary ingredient, plus organic brown rice and other human-consumption-quality ingredients. Also food for finches, parakeets, canaries, cockatiels, and parrots. All The Best, Noah's Park. North Farms New-Process Dog Food (North Farms Cooperative). Mountain Ark Trading Company. PetGuard Dog and Cat Foods (Pet-Guard). Dry and canned. Science Diet Pet Foods (Hill's Pet Products). Largest alternative pet-food line. Dry and canned varieties; the canned line consists of five formulas. Tyrrell's Pet Food (Tyrrell's). Meat combined with cracked wheat." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.) "Dog food contains more than 10 percent protein; cat food has even more. Both with no added preservatives or artificial color. Wysong Dog and Cat Foods (Wysong Corporation). Wide variety of diets for cats and dogs. All The Best, Wysong Corporation. Grooming_ Harmful ingredients: artificial colors, BHA/ BHT, fragrances (this is an estimation; there are no ingredients lists on animal grooming products). At the Store/By Mail Check your local natural-food store for grooming products for your pet, or order them by mail." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Much of the tuna used in cat food comes from the red-meat part of the fish, which contains considerably more toxins than the white-meat tuna that humans regularly consume. Cats become easily "hooked" on tuna just as people do on "crack cocaine." Some veterinarians describe a feline so hooked as being a "tuna junkie." Manufacturers, knowing the great power that tuna holds over such animals, include it in most of their cat foods so as to have felines form an attraction for their particular brands. Shirley and I then discussed what fish might be more appropriate for cats than tuna." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

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