"NO PRESERVATIVES" DOES NOT MAKE THE BEST PET FOOD

Plants and animals are the best of packages. As they exist in nature, all their nutrients are protected by skins, shells, husks, membranes, and internal antioxidants. This is one of the reasons why raw foods are so beneficial. Living food provides so many unaltered life-giving elements.

Strip away the natural packaging and antioxidants, and the nutrients inside are quickly assaulted by the elements. The result is nutrient degradation, rotting, rancidity, and toxin formation. An apple will do fine on the counter for weeks. Peel it and mash it and it quickly turns brown and rots. Squeeze the oil out of seeds or nuts, leave it exposed to the air and it will quickly oxidize and become rancid.

Rotten and rancid foods are toxic and our senses are designed to protect us from this. That is why we and our pets find such spoiled foods repugnant and avoid them.

Once natural food ingredients are processed-by grinding, heating, and otherwise disrupting their natural integrity-fragile nutrients are exposed to heat, light, and oxygen and rapidly deteriorate.

Since pet foods are made up of such processed ingredients, their nutrients can quickly degrade. If fats and oils, for example, are not protected and become oxidized, they will form potent free-radical toxins which, if ingested, can cause serious disease.

Therefore, it is important that processed foods have their nutrients properly protected. The popular headline "No preservatives," found on both pet and human food packages, is therefore a Catch - 22. Degraded nutrients in such products, if not properly stabilized, can be more toxic than the synthetic preservatives they are excluding.

The best pet food is not only not possible without preservatives, it is dangerous. Use processed foods with preservatives, ideally natural ones such as oleoresins ( rosemary, cloves, sage, etc.), mixed tocopherols, and citric acid.

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