The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

In other words, a food could cause disease and destroy long-term
health yet at the same time “not be harmful,” “support life” and be classified
as “100% complete”! So after a pet has been fed the “proven” food
for a period of time equal to the duration of an AAFCO study (26 weeks),
all bets are off. The “100% complete and balanced” food may then be
starving or poisoning the animal with the blessings of the academic,
professional, scientific, governmental and industrial pet food establishment
(see Proofs, pages 74-85).
When researchers set nutrient requirements they use statistics. A bell
curve is created which is a statistical distribution to determine what the
requirement would be for the average majority. If an animal falls in the
middle of the bell curve for every nutrient (each nutrient has its own bell
curve) all may be well. But each edge of the bell curve also represents a
number of animals for which the “average” dose is either too little (creating
a deficiency) or too much (creating possible toxicity). There is a good
chance that any specific animal (as opposed to a statistical average) will
be on the edges of the curve for at least one of the nutrients.*
THE DANGERS OF BELL CURVE
AVERAGE REQUIREMENTS
Fig. 11. Average nutritional requirements mean certain individuals in a
population are at risk of deficiency or overdosage if they achieve these
averages. No two creatures (other than identical twins) are stamped out
of the same mold. All are biochemically and nutritionally unique – not
“average.”
* Wysong Health Letter, “Average May Not Be You,” July 1998:3. J Am Diet
Assoc, 1996; 96(8):754-5.
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