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THE “PET FOODS IN PAPER BAGS<br />

CAN HAVE SHELF-LIVES UP TO<br />

A YEAR OR MORE” MYTH<br />

<strong>The</strong> length of time food remains edible is called “shelf-life.” <strong>The</strong><br />

race for ever-greater shelf-life has turned much of modern food<br />

processing into mortuary, rather than life science.<br />

Rocks and cardboard keep well in paper bags for a year. Since when<br />

do highly nutritious foods do so <strong>Pet</strong> foods are comprised of grains, dairy<br />

products, meats, oils, fats, vitamins and minerals, all of which – unless<br />

they are altered significantly, which nutritionally neutralizes them – deteriorate<br />

with time.<br />

Notice what happens to foods which you know to be highly nutritious.<br />

Can you put a steak, some yogurt, cheese, bread, vegetable oil and<br />

cereal in a paper bag and leave it in your cupboard for six months or a<br />

PUT THESE IN A BAG FOR A YEAR<br />

Fig. 33. Would you eat these foods after they were stored in a paper<br />

bag for months If not, why permit it for your pet<br />

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