THE BEST PET FOOD MUST ADDRESS MODERNITY'S TOXIC OVERLOAD

In effect, modern living and processed foods are toxins. After all, a toxin is defined as a substance or stress to which the body has not had time to adapt to. What happens when we and our pets are exposed to such toxins? Disease. It may not be immediate, but the inability of the body to cope with the toxin will eventually manifest as physiological failure in one form or another.

Organisms have spent eons adapting to natural foods, thriving on their nutrients, and developing protective mechanisms against the natural toxins associated with them. New processed foods present to the body new chemicals, toxins, and altered nutrients to which it has not had time to adapt. We and our pets are therefore part of a giant experiment, the results of which perhaps only our grandchildren will fully know.

Abundant evidence demonstrates the superiority of the natural archetypal diet over the modern, purified, fractionated, processed fare. For example, anthropological studies worldwide have demonstrated that primitive people lose their health once industrialized society introduces them to the modern processed marvels of white sugar, white flour, white salt and white oils (the four white poisons).

There is even a difference that occurs in jaw structure and teeth once people are converted to processed foods. Similar malformations occur in animals put on heat processed foods.

The best pet food should be a mimic of, as closely as possible, the archetypal (the original, primitive) diet and use ingredients that are nutrient-dense and unaltered "from the vine."

It is, of course, not possible to achieve this goal perfectly other than by releasing the pet into the wild. Short of this, however, there is much that a pet owner can do to achieve the best pet food using their own kitchen, as well as intelligently selecting packaged pet foods.

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Thought for the day: Disease is separation from one's nature.

Word of the day: macronutrients - noun: the primary nutrients in an animal's diet such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. In modern times, the macronutrient model has been flipped in almost direct contrast to the natural model. In nature, carnivorous animals consume almost exclusively fats and proteins. In the modern domestic context, companion animals consume predominantly carbohydrates. Such change from the natural model does not occur without consequence.