Why is the Bad Commercial Dog Food So Bad?
Don’t worry – below this section of doom and gloom, there’s help. In order to produce dog food as cheaply as they do, most of the big companies put only the minimum amount of nutritional value into it. So, aside from the nutrition, what’s taking up the rest of the space in that can of wet food or bag of dry food? Well, garbage. Some of it worse than the rest. Now, let’s be clear: I’m not bashing all commercial dog food here. In fact, without endorsing a specific brand, I’ll just say that I do feed my dogs a commercial food most days, along with some raw supplement to that diet and some homemade dog food receipes. The problem is that the cheaper your dog food, the more harmful it can be to your dog. I’m afraid I have to go into some gory details now, because without them, there’s no other way to get this point across. Some of the things that cheap dog food contains, that you didn’t want to know about: • Sickly and diseased animal parts (remember the big media mess over “downer cows?”) •
