PET FOOD RECALL

The commercial pet food industry lacks the standards in ingredient quality and accountablility, and has been called to question many times. Let's talk about Ethoxoquin, a preservative used to preserve meat. Ethoxoquin is a known carcinogen and is not approved by the FDA, yet is approved for pet food. Many years ago, the pet food companies were called into question regarding the use of ethoxoquin and they removed this carcinogens and began to preserve the meat in dry foods w/ tocopherals, and vitamin E. What really occured was that instead of the pet food companies putting the ethoxoquin in the food, they had the meat companies put it in the food before it got to pet food company. Ethoxoquin is still in many pet foods on the market today. The recall today has many facets to consider. If the FDA doesn't approve buying wheat gluten from another country, and or buying meat from other countries, then buying from Canada, who doesn't have those restrictions, is a loop hole that make it easier to buy cheap ingredients from other countryies by buying from Canada, then we can say, we didn't import it. Since the bottom line on making and selling pet food, is for financial gain, and who knows, could they be testing genetically engineered foods on our pets, w/out our knowledge????? Read this very informative opinion article by Dr. Michael Fox DVM. http://tedeboy.tripod.com/drmichaelwfox/id74.html
Maybe the safest thing we can do for our beloved pets is to make our own food for them. The pet food industry and the veterinarin industry would have us believe that we are unable to adequately feed our pets with the proper ingredients, but we must consider that this is highly motivated by their greed to sell us their product. I have been feeding my cats and dogs home prepared foods for the past 10 years and I just lost a 13 1/2 year old German Shepherd, and still have a 13 1/2 year old dog and all my other animals are in their prime living healthy vibrant lives. There are many books and sites out there, where you can learn to make your own pet foods and it's a far superior diet than anything you can buy in a can or a bag. And, believe it or not, it is not more expensive to feed this way. I feed a raw diet and it costs as much as the best commercial diet on the market and they love it.
Please visit my website for further links on feeding our pets a healthier diet.
Good luck and thanks for loving your pets so much.

~jill