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Does Dog Food Cause Dog Vomiting

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 2:59 am
by Robert Hart

Someone says dog food and the image of dry kibble pops into your head. As a society, for over fifty years, commercially manufactured bagged kibble and canned wet food has been synonymous with those simple words.

James Spratt of Cincinnati, Ohio invented first processed dog biscuit in 1860. I wasn’t until World War II that commercial dog food manufacturers began to promote the ease of kibble and canned food onto financial struggling families. No one considered the quality of the food or the ingredients. This new time saver had to be better than the table scraps that domestic animals enjoyed at the time, right?

They couldn’t have been more wrong!

Even though early commercial dog food manufacturers admitted that feeding dogs meat, vegetables and some grains was better for the dogs than processed kibble, people bought it for the convenience, never considering the long-term health consequences of manufactured dog food made from meat scraps, meat- by-products, and grain factory waste. It was cheap and convenient, but was it healthy? Today, with 6 decades of dog health statistics shouting something is wrong, millions of people do what their parents and grandparents did- they give their dogs manufactured dog food.

Between the farmers, slaughterhouses, and Madison Avenue advertising agencies, the manufactured pet food industry has been a huge moneymaker. Meat scraps and grain scraps unfit for human consumption were sold as ingredients to the manufactured pet food industry. The extrusion process was developed by Purina to fluff the wet kibble before drying, making it appear as though the consumer was getting a lot for their money. Alas, unaware pet owners are left holding the bag.

A massive media campaign against feeding your pets table scraps was introduced by The Pet Food Institute in 1964. Without any scientific basis, Veterinarians throughout the world jumped on the bandwagon. This campaign was responsible for millions of pet owners feeding their four-legged family members nothing but this inexpensive, convenient product, which was passed off as food.

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