This food pyramid requires multiple servings of grains, fruit, and vegetables daily. Our pets should definitely not receive anything close to the amount of carbohydrates found in the pyramid (nor should humans for that matter).
We must look to archetypal roots for the best pet food, not nutritional propaganda designed to sell packaged carbohydrate-based foods. In the wild, dogs and cats would only consume incidental (miniscule) amounts of carbohydrates. Under no circumstances would they consume multiple and plentiful servings of processed starches (potatoes, tapioca, grains, sugars, etc.) in a given day.
Ignoring the wisdom of nature and following the food pyramid condemns pets to a host of chronic degenerative diseases and robs them of a full and healthy life.
The human food pyramid is based on the mistaken notion that processed grains are a natural part of the human diet. This cannot be true since humans in the wild would only eat what they can find in its raw state - and grains (even if they could be found in any quantity) are toxic in their raw state.
This fallacy applied to pets is even more disastrous. Although some processed grains in the diet as a part of varied feeding is fine, emphasizing them as in the human food pyramid is a sure path to weight problems and disease in pets.
For a better pyramid based upon health, see the Optimal Health Program/Pyramid
Thought for the day: "I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs... [they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty." – James Herriot
Word for the day: carnivore - noun: an animal with a diet consisting primarily of prey, which would include meat, organs, viscera, vegetation-filled digestive tract, bones...pretty much the whole thing. Carnivores do not eat just "meat."
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