The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

trial tests. The average person should be able to read a package and
understand “100% complete” to mean just that, not a special case definition
based on esoteric pet food industry argot and caveat emptor.
Real food consists of nutrients by the myriad, likely well over a hundred.*
Some known, some not. Even if all the essential nutrients are in
the starting materials, processing destroys or alters practically all of them.
There is also every reason to believe that only the more obvious tip of
the nutrient/disease iceberg has been noticed and corrected. The hidden
jagged edges of exclusively fed “100% complete” foods will continue to
tear at the health bow of companion animals, robbing them of vitality in
numerous subtle ways until they ultimately sink from decoys such as “infection,”
“old age,” “degenerative disease,” “genetics,” “fate” or “unknown
causes” (see Proofs, pages 74-85).
All is not well if “100% complete and balanced” (fixed) foods are fed
exclusively. Although the pet food industry cleverly embroiders the truth
and is charitable with themselves for past errors (and the thousands of
animals diseased from reliance on the “100% complete” claim), the caring
pet owner should not be. The lesson is, become cynical and skeptical, or
the past will be prologue.
THE FOREVER BROKEN FIX
Fig. 3. Through the years nutritional problems in “100% complete” pet
foods have been repaired. If something is 100%, no repairs should be
needed. But repair will forever be needed because truly 100% complete
processed foods are not possible.
* Wysong Companion Animal Health Letter, “The Whole Is Greater Than The
Sum Of Its Parts,” July 1996:1. Am J Clin Nutr, September 1995:621. Tufts
University Diet and Nutrition Letter, May 1994:5.
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