Behind the Bag: Commercial Dog Food
As I began my employment as a PetSupermarket sales associate, I had not a clue of what I would come to learn about pet food. PetSupermarket is a pet store dedicated to contributing to the health of pets. They stick to the sale of premium pet food, foods with no harmful additives or preservatives. I was naïve about pet food before my employment, but through the countless seminars and interactions with pet food representatives, I became extremely conscious of what I should be feeding my pets, and unfortunately what I used to feed my pets. Losing my dog to cancer was heartbreaking, but knowing that I put his health in jeopardy everyday by feeding him commercial dog food just makes it that much worst. Most of us have pets, and we all know the incredible amount of connection and love we have with them. The commercial pet food industry is killing your pets, and making a lot of money doing it.
A study called “Theories of Aging” published in the Veterinary Clinics of North American Small Animal Practice Scientific Journal proved the potential life span of a dog is 27 years (Case 427). In recent times, pets are dying at an alarmingly young age from cancer and other diseases. This may seem normal nowadays, but it is not natural. The foods that pets are eating are the cause of these deaths. Commercial dog foods are packed with fillers and preservatives that often result in illnesses in pets and the public is turning a blind eye to the issue. Leading dog-health author, Ann N. Martin, says that “most commercial pet foods are garbage” (Martin 12). The Grocery Manufacturers of America, the National food Processors Association, and the Pet Food Institute join together and lobby against the FDA to keep the labe...
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If you have been searching the net for that perfect dog food brand, then there is a good chance that you have encountered the Wainwrights Dog Food brand at some stage during your search. You are probably wondering whether Wainwrights Dog Food is a good choice, and whether you should add it to your short list of products to try.
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The biggest weakness for Only Natural Pet Food is the limited shelf-life. To tackle this, we offer smaller bags in the existing stores first. Offering smaller bags the company does not have to stock as much on the shelfs, and allow the company to gauge the sales. Furthermore, with the smaller bags it gives the illusion to the customers of smaller price off setting the higher cost of the
Hundreds of thousands of puppies are raised each year in commercial kennels (Puppymills Breed Misery). Puppy mills keep breed stock in horrible conditions for their short lives and produce unhealthy puppies with many issues. Not only are they committing “inhumane care,” but puppy mills are responsible for customer fraud. Many puppy mills are small and contain about twenty breeding dogs in basements, garages, or sheds “in cages stacked to the roof.” The dogs will stay in those cages without “exercise or sunlight.” Also, the dogs have two “litters” a year till about the age five. Other puppy mills contain hundreds of breeding dogs. The operators keep the puppies in “relative darkness” so the puppies seldom cry or draw attention. The dogs in puppy mills rarely receive medical attention. The females are dissipated because of the never-ending period of “producing and nursing litters.” Most dogs have “chronic ailments, rotten teeth, and ear, eye, and skin infections.” Many of the puppies purchased from puppy mills are un-healthy and not well-adjusted. The puppies have a high prevalence of hereditary syndromes and illnesses, and difficulties that occurs following the “purchase.” After the females cannot produce anymore liters...
Animals are getting experimented on for products. Animals are getting affected everyday by this problem. They are getting experimented on to see if a product is safe for human beings to use. Medical schools in the United States have stopped using animals for their needs in training.(Driscoll and Finley) In 1983, 150 baboons had to be removed from the University of Pennsylvania Head Injury Clinic for brain damage. (Driscoll and Finley) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Animal Liberation Front removed the baboons from the clinic. (Driscoll and Finley) The results of the experiments are not even that accurate. Nutrition experiments on animals are very inaccurate. PCRM published the article “An Examination of Animal Experiments” that stated “Nutrition is another area where animal experiments have raised repeated problems. While it is easy to feed vitamins, fat, or fiber to animals and to check whether their disease rates rise or fall, the relevance to humans is limited at best, due to major physiological differences between species.” People and organizations, such as PETA and the Humane Society of the United States(HSUS), have been...
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