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"Think what would happen if you gave your dog a choice between a cheeseburger, fries, and a milkshake or dry dog food and water. Of course, most dogs would impulsively choose the tasty fast food and would completely ignore their nutritious dog food. If they were allowed to make this impulsive choice day after day, they would invariably become obese and die prematurely. Of course, we are all smarter than dogs, but if you want to get your weight under control, you must develop some nutritional wisdom and avoid impulse eating at all costs." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"That's due to changes in the nutritional makeup of cheaper dog food products today that are using a lot of white rice as a filler (because white rice is cheap and makes the dog foods more profitable). But just as in human beings, white rice causes diabetes and obesity because it's a refined carbohydrate offering little more than "empty calories." You can learn a lot about nutrition from your pets When you look at pets, there is a direct relationship between foods and disease that is quite apparent. Part of the reason this is so apparent is because pets age much more quickly than human beings." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"It is my opinion that if somebody calls me on the phone, or meets me on the street, or sends me an e-mail or writes me a letter and asks me a question about what type of dog food I give my dog, I am free to mention the product by brand name. I believe that if somebody in any form asks me a question about anything, I am free to express my opinion and state what I want to state without fear of reprisal from the Federal Trade Commission. Imagine how silly it would be to be on the Larry King show and have Larry ask me, "Kevin, what type of bottled water do you drink?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"If you were to take two dogs that were genetically very similar (from the same litter, for example), and you brought them into your house from the time they were very young then fed one dog all the processed foods that human beings eat, while feeding the other dog outstanding nutrition from the more expensive dog food formulas, you would see a tremendous difference in the health and lifespan of these two dogs." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Cereals, bread, milk, yoghurt, boiled sweets (hard candy), even dog food with added vitamins leave the supermarket shelves much faster than foods without them. Smokers, meat eaters, sugar addicts and people who drink too much alcohol can now continue enjoying their self-destructing habits without having to fear the dreaded vitamin deficiency, thanks to the blessed food industry. The magic food supplements have become an insurance policy against poor diet, and nobody has to feel guilty anymore over eating junk food." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"They sell everything from dog food to toilet paper (recycled, of course). The success of these natural food stores has forced other supermarkets to meet consumers' demands for more healthful products. Also, increased sales volume has brought down the cost of healthful foods in both traditional supermarkets and natural food markets. Reading labels is the key to effective food shopping. Ingredients are supposed to be listed in descending order of amounts contained in the package. However, these labels can be deceptive." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"I had the dry dog food tested at an independent lab, and the test results showed a zinc level twenty times higher than the daily recommended dose. Veterinarians versed in toxicology whom I contacted explained that zinc levels in excess of 1,000 parts per million (ppm) can be toxic for dogs. The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for dogs is approximately 50 mg. per day. Other minerals often listed on a pet food label: Iron proteinate, ferrous carbonate, and ferrous sulfate: These are necessary for the production of hemoglobin. Deficiencies will manifest themselves as anemia and fatigue." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "According to Riveriene Farm, bone-meal used in many dog food recipes, "contains absorbable calcium but may be contaminated with lead." You can purchase bonemeal that is certified free of heavy metal contamination, lead, mercury, and arsenic. If you are going to add a supplement, certified bonemeal is the best choice. The Nutrition Index describes calcium chloride as irritating to the intestinal tract, and calcium phosphate interferes with the absorption of other nutrients when included with other supplements." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"It is a mild herb that can be added to dog food or horse feed. In cats, small amounts of tincture are the most easily used dosage form. Eleuthero Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus) increases energy, endurance, longevity, immunity, skin and muscle tone, and bone strength. It can be used in mature, elderly, convalescing, or chronically ill pets. It is an excellent mild tonic that relieves stress and improves resistance to infections." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Super G—Chunk Style dog food, 16.4 ppb. 8. Heinz—Kibbles 'n Bits Beefy Bits, 25.1 ppb. 9. Dad's—Bite Size Meal Chicken and Rice, 8.4 ppb. 10. Pet Gold—Master Diet Puppy Formulation, 11.6 ppb. The FDA/CVM noted that although some pet food formulations did test positive for sodium pentobarbital levels, they might be free of this drug now. Every lot of rendered material is composed of various animal tissues. Therefore, if the animals rendered today are cattle who have died in the field or roadkill, there would be no levels of sodium pentobarbital detected." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"In captivity on fish farms, however, salmon eat the equivalent of dog food: first small and then larger pellets of fish meal and fish oil, soy protein, wheat (as a binder), and vitamins and minerals. The pellets also contain meat-and-bone meal made from the rendered leftover meat, blood, and bones of cows, pigs, and other animals (those very same by-products excluded from "natural" beef because of concerns about mad cow disease). The several billion chickens that get killed for food each year produce tons of feathers, many of which end up as feather meal in fish pellets." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Of course, most dogs would impulsively choose the tasty fast food and would completely ignore their nutritious dog food. If they were allowed to make this impulsive choice day after day, they would invariably become obese and die prematurely. Of course, we are all smarter than dogs, but if you want to get your weight under control, you must develop some nutritional wisdom and avoid impulse eating at all costs. Fortunately, with some easily acquired knowledge and a bit of planning, impulse eating can be a thing of the past." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Science Diet dog food has no less than forty. Lab rats are fed rabbit pellets with at least twenty-eight minerals. Mere coincidence, or do these facts suggest a healthier population of animals than infant humans? Of course, the most obvious symptoms of childhood illnesses are written off as normal and routine. This is where sickness is considered to be an expected feature of the maturing process. For some reason, we assume this to be sensible. Is attempting to eliminate or minimize the causal factors unrealistic?" - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Soon, you'll probably be able to buy dog food with Astaxanthin already mixed in it; but you don't have to wait for a pet food company to do this for you—you can buy some gelcaps yourself and mix one in with your dog's food each day. Any Animal Will Benefit from Natural Astaxanthin Mice and rats, fish and shrimp, and even dogs have demonstrated health benefits from Astaxanthin in the studies we've already cited." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"It was supposed to provide a cushion of cash for retired people—so they wouldn't have to eat dog food in their old age. But never was a shiny bell cast by world improvers without a big crack in it somewhere. Economist Martin Feldstein pointed out that if you could count on receiving payments from Social Security, you had less need to save. Fewer savings meant less money for the economy to invest in new industries. Less money invested meant lower productivity and wages." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"The company produces two lines of dog food, chicken and beef formula, and lamb and rice formula. K9 Gourmet is baked at moderate temperatures and frozen fresh from the oven. K9 Gourmet only uses human grade ingredients and there are no chemical additives, by-products, preservatives, dyes, salt, or sugar. Natura Pet Products was founded by John and Ann Rademakers and Peter Atkins in Santa Clara, California. It produces a line of dry and canned foods for dogs and cats. They use only human-grade food, and their bottomline is, "If I wouldn't eat it, why would I want to feed it to my pet?" - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Generic dog food uses corn as the primary source of calories, explains Susan Donoghue, V.M.D. Corn is low in protein and calcium, so manufacturers add calcium and protein-rich soybean meal. This makes the food too high in calcium, she says. The calcium binds with a soybean ingredient called phytate and prevents absorption of zinc. This leads to a zinc-deficiency dermatitis around the lips and eyes of dogs who live on generic dog food. and, besides needing between 30 to 40 percent protein, "have some very peculiar nutritional requirements," especially an amino acid called taurine." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"Corn products show up in toothpaste, alcohol, dog food, trash bags, glue, canned goods, shoe polish, fireworks, lotions, crayons, ink, batteries, margarine, marshmallows, mustard, ice cream, aspirin, paint, cosmetics—the list keeps going, ad infinitum. Culinary Uses Throughout history, corn—or maize, as it is known in most places—has turned up in a hundred different forms and has provided the base grain for many thousands of dishes in cultures around the world. Available in a myriad of forms, there is one to suit any purpose or taste preference." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Using techniques advertising has perfected over decades to entice consumers to buy soap, cereal, beer, perfume, and dog food, the drug companies are transforming the way we look at medicines and fattening their own profits in the process. From 1994 to 2000, spending for consumer drug advertising rocketed from $266 million to $2.5 billion—a whopping 840 percent increase. Sales of prescription drugs shot up from $79 billion in 1997 to $164 billion in 2002. At the present pace, sales will reach a quarter-trillion dollars by 2007." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"More recent research on consumer behavior not only confirms his observations but continues to be awe-inspiring in its meticulous attention to detail. Your local library has entire textbooks and academic journals devoted to investigations of consumer behavior and ways to use the results of that research to sell products. Researchers are constantly interviewing shoppers and listening carefully to what they are told. Because of scanners, supermarkets can now track your purchases and compare what you tell researchers to what you actually buy." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Then consider this: • Dogs who ate standard man-made, chemically laced dog food live, depending on the breed, between twelve and fourteen years. Dogs that are fed all organic raw food, as they would eat in nature, live to be twenty-two to thirty years old. 24. Not convinced that companies produce poisons that they call "food"? Then consider this: • People always ask me, "Why do food companies and restaurants put all of these chemicals into the food?" The answer is very simple, they must make the food in the cheapest possible manner." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"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. 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." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Here's a (shortened) description of Greeley, as printed in Fast Food Nation: You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. The smell is worst during the summer months, blanketing Greeley day and night like an invisible fog. Many people who live there no longer notice the smell; it recedes into the background, present but not present, like the sound of traffic for New Yorkers." - 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.) "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. But don't put it past meat growers to use any chemical necessary to generate more profits." - 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.)

"This is one reason you shouldn't feed dog food to cats; they're unable to make sufficient taurine out of the amino acids in dog food. A taurine deficiency can cause degeneration of the retina in the eye, leading to blindness. There is very little difference in brands or types of cat foods because cats have very strict requirements. The cat may not agree, Dr. Donoghue adds: "Cats are very individualistic; it's hard to predict what they'll like." Feed 'em fat. It's essential to healthy skin and coat, aids digestibility of other nutrients and makes food taste good." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"The waiter commented that he personally fed his own dog on Red Heart dog food. The customer replied that his dog would not eat dog food and demanded steak. The waiter said, "You've got one fussy mutt there, mister." The man, badly hurt by these insensitive words, went home and brooded. His beloved dog, a prince of canines, had been called "a fussy mutt." He brooded more. Imagine how you would feel if your mother were called "a drunken old whore." To this man, having his precious hound called "a fussy mutt" apparently seemed equally insufferable." - Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World (Get the book.)

"Generic dog food uses corn as the primary source of calories, explains Susan Donoghue, V.M.D. Corn is low in protein and calcium, so manufacturers add calcium and protein-rich soybean meal. This makes the food too high in calcium, she says. The calcium binds with a soybean ingredient called phytate and prevents absorption of zinc. This leads to a zinc-deficiency dermatitis around the lips and eyes of dogs who live on generic dog food. and, besides needing between 30 to 40 percent protein, "have some very peculiar nutritional requirements," especially an amino acid called taurine." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"Not only are soybeans suitable for all kinds of baked products, but soya flour or soybeans can also be used in breakfast foods, diabetic and infant foods, in pancake and self-rising flours, macaroni, doughnuts, pretzels, soy sauce, pate's de foie gras, potted meats, meat loaf, and sandwich spreads, mayonnaise, soups, confectionary, beverages, coffee substitutes, beer, milk, cheese, ice cream, dog food, besides numerous industrial products. It is understood, of course, that food products containing soya flour should be properly labeled." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.)

"In addition, dogs are not strict carnivores but omnivores: if you are so naive as to think that your beloved pet dog is really a meat eater, just read the list of ingredients on your bag of dog food. The dogs that the Aztecs and Polynesians reared for food were efficiently fattened on vegetables and garbage. Growth Rate. To be worth keeping, domesticates must also grow quickly. That eliminates gorillas and elephants, even though they are vegetarians with admirably nonfinicky food preferences and represent a lot of meat." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"BISER: / have seen veterinarians recommend one particular dog food. The first ingredient is corn, second ingredient is wheat. Dogs don't forage for corn or oats. Herbalist: That is why we have to go back and ask "What is natural here?" You look at most dog food and it looks good for us. It is a grain vegetable array, avocados, it goes on and on. It looks like pretty good stuff. This is a big problem. The animals, especially dogs and cats, being carnivores, have very quick, very high-acid, short digestive tracts." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

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