Why do conventional vets recommend dry food or prescription diets while holistic vets recommend real food?
Unfortunately, conventional vets rely on pet food companies to tell them what foods are good for pets. (Try asking them what the ingredients of their recommended pet foods are and good luck getting the right answer!) It’s a relationship very similar to the human doctor and pharmaceutical company relationship. Vet students get minimal training in pet nutrition and if ever they do, pet food company representatives or professors funded by pet food companies are the ones who teach them. (At least 90% of so-called pet nutrition experts are funded by pet food companies as admitted by these professors in a Consumer Reports issue on pet foods.) Most holistic vets practiced conventional vet medicine for a long time before becoming “holistic”. Their practices’ transformation oftentimes occurred after realizing, through actual practice and research, that the best approach to curing and maintaining the health of animals is through an integrative approach, including advocating that the very foundat
