The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

Most other pet professionals know even less. But pet owners need
to rely on the advice of someone, so they go to the obvious. Regretfully,
the advice they receive – “feed ‘100% complete’ processed foods
exclusively” – if applied, condemns most pets to eventual disease and
suffering, as you will learn in these pages.
Veterinary students do become familiar with some brands of pet food
while in school. But this is not through critical evaluation, but rather because
some manufacturers provide free products for the teaching hospitals
along with polished marketing materials. Pet food companies are no
dummies. Brainwashing infants (in this case, veterinary neophytes) is highly
effective and will more than pay for itself when graduates move to practice
and recommend all they know.
Veterinarians, pet store employees, breeders, groomers, trainers or
kennel owners are not purposely misleading. It’s all they know, or it’s
where the money is because they represent a particular brand.
Now, a veterinarian has an excellent background in the sciences to
use as a base to gain some true nutritional understanding. A few do this,
but not many. If you find one, pay attention. Pet professionals, unless
educated well in the sciences, have a more difficult task and are more
easily bamboozled by pet food technomarketing. They also often are led
astray by getting fixated on lore regarding the benefits of a certain ingredient
or the horrors of another. It gives them something to get passionate
about when advising plebeians. Nevertheless, if they have an open mind,
want the truth, and will work intellectually to get it, their advice can become
worthy as well.
One must still be cautious because some veterinarians and pet professionals
are “on the take.” In return for their authoritative credentials and
endorsements, they are given all kinds of perks. This need not be bad in
and of itself, but it can skew even a professional’s judgement.
For you to even know what is or is not good advice, you must engage
your mind, learn a little, and be bent on the truth. Ultimately, in matters of
health for yourself or your pets, you are the most reliable expert. If what
you are told does not make sense and is not grounded in science, forget
the credentials.
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