Does Dog Food Cause Dog Vomiting
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.
The first rocessed dog biscuit was invented by James Spratt of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1860. Commercial dog food manufacturers began to promote the ease of kibble and canned food onto financial struggling families during World War II. These Families quickly adopted kibble as an alternative to table scraps without considering the quality or the ingredients. It had to be better than table scraps, right?
They couldn’t have been more wrong!
In fact, early commercial dog food manufacturers agreed that feeding dogs meat, vegetables and some grains was better for the dogs than the processed kibble they were making from meat scraps, meat- by-products, and factory waste, such as saw dust and grain husk. Convenient? Absolutely! Cheap – not in the long run. Healthy? You can excuse the early adopters but, generations later, dog diseases are near epidemic levels. In spite of the evidence that something is wrong, millions of people continue to give their dogs manufactured dog food.
For everyone involved, the commercial pet food industry was a win-win operation! Farmers sold off both grain and vegetable crops that were unfit for human consumption and slaughterhouses had a market for body parts they would normally have to pay to have taken to the dump. The manufacturers quickly worked out how best to market their products to unwary pet owners and Purina even developed a way to expand or fluff up the kibble before drying called extrusion so consumers felt they were getting more for their money.
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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