The Best Way to Pick a Healthy Dog Food.

How much time do you spend on picking your dog food? When reading the labels do you know what the ingredients listed really are?

I started my research on dog food shortly after my six year old Beagle started having seizures. What I found out was both amazing and scary, so I immediately started a crusade to educate pet owners around the world.

Relax I’m not going to try and sell you some upscale dog food, but I am going to show you how you should be choosing your loved ones food.

If you take simple steps and learn to feed your dogs healthy food, you can add around 8 years to their lives Just think, that means eight more years of tongue kissing, tail wagging unconditional love

It took me many hours of research, but I did find a book that explained how to decode the secret language used on dog food labels. The good news is the FDA does regulate dog food labeling… well sort of. The weak regulations are so weak that ingredients labeled not fit for human consumption can be the main ingredients for dog food..

The regulations for dog food labeling seemed to be written to help the industry hide certain ingredients they use to enhance flavor and prolong shelf life. Not to mention just plain deceive the pet owner by allowing the commercial pet food industry to play with words in their labeling.

Here is one example of how they play with words. If the food is named Beef Dog Food it would have 70% of some kind of beef, but if its name is Beef Flavored Dog Food it would have 0% beef..

If the name of the food contains the word “with” then by law that food only needs to contain around 3% of that ingredient. The words “Dinner” or “Nuggets” along with many more words all change the quality of the dog food.

The FDA has helped the industry with its weak regulations, deceive the pet owners into thinking they are using quality ingredients, when in reality they use ingredients listed as not fit for human consumption..

Because human food processing produces some much waste, the pet food industry has been able to use this as byproducts to make their products. These ingredients are first marked unfit for human consumption to ensure they don’t find their way back into the human food chain

The dog food labeling regulations our written so poorly that they allow the industry to make toxic ingredients sound like they are healthy. One would think that when they read Dried Egg Products as an ingredient in their dog food, that that would be a good thing. In reality this ingredient is a waste by-product of the egg industry first marked unfit for human consumption before it is sold to the dog food companies.

Many more ingredients listed on dog food labels sound healthy, but are also listed as unfit for human consumptions. I don’t know about you, but if it’s not safe for me to eat I’m not feeding it to my dog.

After doing my own research I have decided I needed to switch my dogs to a homemade dog food, but I know that is not particle for everyone. Therefore it is even more important to understand exactly what is in your dog food. The link below will take you to a website that I found that will explain every word listed on the label of the dog food you are using.

This is important, for the healthy of your dog you really should learn what’s in your dog food and be prepared for the next dog food recall by clicking here