The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

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21 PET FOOD FALLACIES
(a brief review)
1. As long as a pet is fed a “100% complete and balanced” pet
food, it will not suffer from nutritionally related diseases.
FALSE. Science does not have 100% knowledge of anything,
much less nutrition. It follows, therefore, that exclusive feeding of such
erroneously based diets will likely cause, not prevent, disease (see
pages 2-4).
2. If the ingredient listings on two different pet foods are the same,
it means that both pet foods contain the same things.
FALSE. Names of ingredients may vary, the same ingredients may
vary in quality, and relative levels of ingredients may differ widely even
though the ingredient listings may be identical. A food with 30%
chicken meat, bone and giblets and 15% whole brown rice can have
the same ingredient listing as a food with 20% chicken heads, feet and
intestines and 20% refined white rice. Same label, but vastly different
nutrition (see pages 25-26).
3. If the label on a pet food bag reads chicken, beef, lamb, cheese,
rice, and so forth, the package contains basically the same foods
humans eat.
FALSE. The ingredients used in pet foods are usually by-products
of the human food industry. Manufacturers mislead consumers by
picturing human-type foods in advertisements but then use materials
entirely different than in the pictures. For example, dressed grocery
store chicken is not the same as pet food ingredient “chicken” which
usually is comprised of heads, feet and intestinal tracts. Grocery store
steaks and roasts are not the same as the pet food ingredient “beef”
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