Commercial Dog Food Contains Dead Pets!

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Commercial Dog Food Contains Dead Pets!

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If
you are a dog owner you're probably aware of the recent pet food scandal that
has rocked the nation, resulted in several pet deaths, hundreds of animals
falling mysteriously ill and the nationwide recall
of 60 million packages of dog food products (and counting) as well as
other pet foods!

The Culprit

Melamine: This is
the substance at the center of the pet food poison scandal. Pure melamine is
used to make plastics and fertilizer so how the heck could it make the
transition into dog food? Well the story begins in China…kind of.

Animal
feed producers in China have
apparently for some time routinely supplemented their feed with melamine to
artificially boost the protein content (which translates into more profit). Protein
readings are done by assessing the nitrogen levels of the feed and guess what?
Melamine has a high nitrogen content!

Unfortunately
this sordid tale gets worse. As if adding poisonous melamine to your dog's food
was not bad enough another toxic ingredient is routinely added to Chinese
animal feed products. This substance is known as cyanuric acid. In the United
States this stuff is commonly used to
disinfect swimming pools!

Investigators
looking into the hundreds of pet food poison related deaths now believe that
the combination of those two ingredients in commercial dog food and other pet
food synergistically elevated the toxins to the point where they became lethal
to pets.

The Dirty Secret Close To Home

Although
American food safety regulators are pinning the blame on pet food contaminated
with Chinese animal feed products, the alarming truth is that dog food
manufactured in the USA is also
toxic to your pet!

Commercial
dog food manufactured in the US contains
no less than 6 deadly chemicals that have been banned as unfit for human
consumption because they cause:

Hair
Loss (fur loss);

Kidney
Disease;

Liver
dysfunction;

Stomach
cancer;

Blindness;

Leukemia;
and

Skin
cancer, to name but a few! The substances that cause these problems are found
in preservatives…

Oh But I Always Use Preservative Free Dog
Food!

You
may think that your dog is safe and healthy because you only insist on buying
preservative free dog food. Well dog manufacturers have found a legit way
around that too! Many dog foods labeled as preservative free in fact contain
preservatives because the manufacturers exploit a loophole whereby they do not
have to list any preservative that they themselves did not add.

And
unfortunately many preservatives are added to pet foods at the rendering plant
well before the meat is ever sent to the manufacturer. One of the most widely
used and most powerful preservatives also happens to be one of the most toxic!
It is called ethoxyquin (EQ) and you aren't going to see it listed on your dog
food label anytime soon (even though it is in that "preservative
free" dry pet food you love to buy) because the manufacturer has no legal
obligation to list it.

Although
ethoxyquin is permitted in pet food, workers exposed to this substance showed
symptoms similar to those of people exposed to agent orange (poisonous
herbicide used by the US
government in Vietnam War that caused cancer and other diseases).

Your Dog Is Eating Dead Dogs And Dead Cats!

Perhaps
the sickest part of this sick tale is that euthanized (put down) dogs and cats
are recycled as chow for your pet! The city of angels (Los
Angeles) is known for the devilish
practice of recycling approximately 200 tons of dead cats and dogs each month
into pet food!

Arrrgghh…disgusting
huh? 

Still
it gets worse; poisonous disinfectants and denaturing chemicals are used to
treat those recycled dead animals and "render them safe" for your
dog's consumption, not to mention the fact that the toxin used to kill those animals
(sodium pentobarbital) can withstand the heat used in the denaturing process.

Bottom Line: If you love your dog and
want to see him/her live to a ripe healthy old age, perhaps it is time you considered
alternative means of nutrition!

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