THE "NO" PLOY AND INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS

The "no" this or that ingredient, or the "yes" this or that special ingredient methods of choosing the best pet food misses the point. Health is not about any one certain ingredient that is either in or out of a pet food. That's the lazy, non-thinking way for producers to make foods and for consumers to choose them.

Using one simple criterion for selecting a packaged food - such as the presence or absence of a certain ingredient - and then feeding the food relentlessly may be simple, and take the hard work out of meal planning and judgment, but it is not the way to health.

Once we put our minds on vacation we become vulnerable to every sort of marketing scheme. For example, a steady diet of starches is not natural for carnivores. Starch is nothing but a poly-sugar. And we know a diet high in sugars is deadly, for humans and certainly for pets.

So a "no corn" or "no grain" food that instead has "yes" tapioca, potato or other forms of starches does not solve the problem.

The only thing that can achieve the best pet food and optimal health is feeding as nature intended. That means variety and rotation with properly designed packaged foods and supplements, along with raw natural foods.

Yes it requires a little thought, but it's a matter of a little effort for health now, or a whole lot of misery, cost, and effort in dealing with disease later.

Thought for the day: People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Word for the day: RDA - abbreviation: Stands for Recommended Daily Allowance. It is the average amount of nutrients individuals require so as not to suffer overt nutrient deficiencies. Although this may serve as a minimum standard, it does not address biochemical individuality wherein an individual may require many times the minimum. The RDA is also not sufficient to optimize health and prevent many of the chronic degenerative diseases that are not detected with short-term RDA studies.