The Worst Canned Foods You Can Feed Your Dog
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| Zinia Corely |
Many pet food companies use the cheapest ingredients they can find. Whether it comes from dead diseased animals, road kill, or euthanized pets from shelters. These ingredients are not suitable for human consumption. If you won't eat it, why should your dog! Most pet foods contain 4-D ingredients. 4-D is meat and by-products that have been derived from animals that were rejected by food inspectors who classified the animals as not fit for human consumption because they were “Dead, Dying, Disabled or Diseased” at the time of inspection. Any chemicals that existed within that animal, would still be in it when dead. Meat by-products are nothing more than slaughterhouse waste; waste that’s been banned for use in human food and then sold to the pet food industry. It’s what’s left over after the slaughter and classified as inedible waste, unfit for human consumption.
4-D's: Road kill, slaughter house rejects, animals that die on their way to meat packing plants - all are acceptable ingredients for pet food under the "4D" rule. Steroids, growth hormones and chemicals used to treat cattle including insecticide patches end up mixed into the final product. Meat from grocery stores past its due date is also added to the mix, as are the Styrofoam trays and plastic wrap they were packed in.
With dry foods, the ingredients are cooked twice. First
during rendering and again in the extruder. Problems are
much more common than with canned or homemade foods.
Altered proteins may contribute to food intolerance's, food
allergies, and inflammatory bowel disease.
High-heat processing of pet food – especially kibble –
heterocyclic amine. Needless to say, these cancer-causing
by-products of processing won’t be listed on any pet food
ingredient list.
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But they are extremely dangerous, even in small amounts, when fed day in and day out. There’s a connection between these carcinogens and the rising rates of cancer in today’s pets. Proteins, Fats, Antioxidants, Enzymes, Minerals, Vitamins, and Beneficial Bacteria are all damaged or destroyed during the heating process. Grains and legumes contain mold and even through extrusion, it does not remove or kill the mold. Mold can cause cancer and/or organ failure.
Canned is better due to more moisture content as it still holds some nutrients than kibble. Although in wet foods, the water-soluble B-vitamin thiamine can be almost completely lost due to its reactivity with heat, moisture, sulfites, elevated pH and the thiaminase enzymes found in fish and organ meats.
Do you really want to feed your dog this? Learn to read ingredients. Or go with a canned dog food with less fillers and more nutrition and moisture content. Feeding these foods listed will shorten the life of your dog, cause many horrible diseases, seizures, joint issues, diabetes and will be sick much more often and you will be spending hard earned dollars on trying to save your pet.
Below is a listing of some of the popular or inexpensive worst canned dog food brands that contain harmful, unnecessary and outright dangerous ingredients which are highlighted in red. Not all bad ingredients are highlighted in red. This is not a complete list; unfortunately there are many more brands on the market. Each manufacturer’s website should offer a complete ingredient listing and nutritional value analysis of their products.
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