Indeed, the medical community, nutritionists, food processors, and the media are convinced that raw foods are dangerous. But this has been greatly exaggerated. Totally ignored is the fact that cooking in itself creates nutritional dangers that can manifest in all the modern degenerative diseases dogs, cats, and people have.
Since the best pet foods are by definition raw, and therefore essential to health, what are we to do about the so-called dangers?
First of all, get perspective. In the wild, all food is raw. Since carnivores continue to exist - and thrive in the wild - a raw diet is obviously not dangerous. They even eat scavenged, decaying, flyblown, parasitized food that is teeming with bacteria. They can do this because their digestive tracts and immune systems are designed to neutralize the pathogens and toxins.
Although pets today may not have such vigorous digestive and immune health - a result in itself of eating heat processed sterilized pet foods - that can be changed by slowly converting the diet to as close to its proper state as possible.
Yes, a bout of digestive upset from food-borne pathogens in raw foods is possible, but the alternative from not eating raw foods - the host of chronic degenerative diseases - is a far more cruel and lethal risk. Veterinarians rarely if ever see a patient that becomes ill from eating raw food . But their offices are filled with pets suffering from compromised immune systems and chronic degenerative diseases resulting from eating steam cleaned, sterilized, pseudofoods at every meal.
The best pet food means incorporating raw foods early in life and often thereafter.
(Note: Be wary of the current deceptive marketing practices in the pet food industry. Slogans used by pretenders to raw include: "cold formed," "raw boosted," "just like raw," "freeze dried," "convenient alternative to raw," "made with raw," etc. Have them prove to you their slogans mean the food has not been subject to heat above 118 degrees.)
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Thought for the day: We can believe whatever we choose to believe, but we are answerable for what that choice is.
Word for the day: humility - noun: we all think we know what this word means, but we don't think of it in its most important application - to thinking. Admitting we are wrong seems to be the hardest thing in the world for people to do. We hold on to our precious ideas as if they are attached to our brains as firmly as, and are as dear to us as an arm or leg. Humility is the ability to move new ideas into the mind with no regret about losing the ones they replace. It means taking pride in only one idea, namely having an open mind, not a grocery list of firm beliefs that have not stood the test of reason and evidence.
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