THE BEST PET FOOD IS NOT HUMAN GRADE

Spurred on by horror stories about how pet foods contain road kill and euthanized pets, by-products, fillers and the like, the trend in pet foods is "human grade" ingredients.

There are several reasons to steer clear of this claim if you want the best pet food.

First, human grade can mean Coca Cola, marshmallows, French fries, Jolly Ranchers, and thick crust pizza. The term encompasses the four white poisons of white flour, white oil, white salt, and white sugar. Human grade ingredients are responsible for the epidemic of chronic degenerative diseases plaguing modern humans. So why visit the same results on pets?

Secondly, although "human grade" has an evocative ring, it has nothing to do with selecting the best pet foods for nutrition and health. Watch what primitive humans and carnivores eat in the wild. None of it is "human grade." Many things we now call by-products and non-human grade were the prized fare of our ancestors and our pet's ancestors.

Don't judge an ingredient by its word cover. Your pet will do far better eating things like intestines, bones, bruised meat, and organs than "human grade" pure white chicken breast and fluffy white flour. The natural archetypal model is what should be followed, not beguiling claims about "human grade."

And a final thought. Consider all the nutritious "non-human grade" ingredients that are "by-products" of the human food supply chain. If they are not used, they are put in landfills so we can feed our pets more cosmetically pleasing, nutrient impoverished, "human grade," white and red meat. That would certainly not constitute the best pet food. Further, this waste would mean that even more food animals would need to be raised and slaughtered with the attendant environmental impacts.

Feed your dog and cat using reason, not emotionally charged human invented words like "human grade."

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