The pet food industry has grown throughout the years, where more food products have come out by different commercial companies that explore the idea of pet food as nutritious and healthy but do we really know what the food product contains?
There are millions of pet owners who feed their pets commercial food, which they think is “safe and nutritious” as the labels conceive them to be, but hidden combinations of ingredients are causing pet consumers to get serious side effects, which is also leading to death. Carter quotes “Americans spend over $58 billion for their pets. $22 billion alone, is spent on pet food and most of the pet food given is low quality, but labels state that they are beneficial and advertize that animals gain healthy joints, skin and fur,” which only tells buyers on what they want to hear and see, but the actual evidence has not been scientifically backed up these alleged health benefits (“Looking For the Safest, Healthiest Pet Food? Good Luck with That”).
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It is also included in the article that “human salmonella contamination is linked to dry dog and cat food between the times of 2006-2008.”
The article "What Is Safe to Feed Our Pets?" quotes “pets are no longer ‘just a dog’ but a full-fledged member of the family.” If pets are no longer “just a dog” but a fully-fledged family member then why do they have a poor dietary consumption, which would be unfit for a human too.
Pets are now known to be family members in homes of the public, then why are pets being fed food, which isn’t safe for them? Food quality can be checked in varieties of ways and if Americans are paying around $22 billion on food, they should consider on high quality foods, that may be expensive, but you know that they are safe and that their ingredients are truly beneficial to their pets’
There are millions of pet owners who feed their pets commercial food, which they think is “safe and nutritious” as the labels conceive them to be, but hidden combinations of ingredients are causing pet consumers to get serious side effects, which is also leading to death. Carter quotes “Americans spend over $58 billion for their pets. $22 billion alone, is spent on pet food and most of the pet food given is low quality, but labels state that they are beneficial and advertize that animals gain healthy joints, skin and fur,” which only tells buyers on what they want to hear and see, but the actual evidence has not been scientifically backed up these alleged health benefits (“Looking For the Safest, Healthiest Pet Food? Good Luck with That”).
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It is also included in the article that “human salmonella contamination is linked to dry dog and cat food between the times of 2006-2008.”
The article "What Is Safe to Feed Our Pets?" quotes “pets are no longer ‘just a dog’ but a full-fledged member of the family.” If pets are no longer “just a dog” but a fully-fledged family member then why do they have a poor dietary consumption, which would be unfit for a human too.
Pets are now known to be family members in homes of the public, then why are pets being fed food, which isn’t safe for them? Food quality can be checked in varieties of ways and if Americans are paying around $22 billion on food, they should consider on high quality foods, that may be expensive, but you know that they are safe and that their ingredients are truly beneficial to their pets’