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From Chihuahuas to the Mastiff, domestic dogs carry the same DNA patterns and share a single evolutionary origin, wolf-like ancestry. Just like their wild cousins, modern dogs and cats are still carnivores - equipped with sharp teeth, a short and acidic (Ph of 1.0) digestive system that's primarily tuned to run on quality protein. WHY therefore, do almost all commericial petfoods today base grains and carbs as their main ingredients ... ? READ ON  Pet food facts“ DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN YOUR DOG’S NUTRITION AND WHAT HE OR SHE EATS … ? ”
Dogs and cats are carnivores, unlike herbivores and omnivores they have a very short and acidic intestinal tract that has a Ph of 1.0. Because of this FACT they lack enzymes to break down and digest carbohydrates efficiently. Their digestive system is tuned to run on meat based proteins.
For example, dogs are able to assimilate (digest and take up) 100% of the protein from egg whites, 92% from muscle meats like chicken or fish but only 64% from wheat and just a mere 54% from corn. Have you ever checked which of these ingredients forms the basis of your current dog food?
If your current dog food is high in cereal based grains, your dog may not be getting the goodness you think it is! Whilst the nutritional analysis and the protein % on the label will probably be technically correct - if cereal ingredients form the majority of the food, how much real goodness do you think is actually being taken in by your dog?
If you consider grains and cereals are reputed as being the leading cause of allergies and skin conditions in dogs. Ask yourself, why do most commercial dog food diets base grains as their primary ingredient?
Dog food ingredients legally - are listed in descending order prior to cooking – not after cooking and processing, primary ingredients must come first, secondary next, going down to the least. Subject to a couple of ‘gotchas’ …
Gotcha #1 - If a type of meat protein is listed first in a hydrated form it will reduce in size by up to 80% once the moisture is removed. Once this occurs then it’s likely to actually end up further down the list after others already pre-dehydrated (such as grains).
Even though your dogs food might start with meat, if grains are next – once cooked it can just become another primarily grain based food.
Gotcha #2 - ‘Splitting’ is a technique used by some manufacturers to move some less desirable ingredients further down the ingredient list than they really should be. For example if an ingredient list has ‘corn’ and ‘corn meal’ - split then they are listed separately and therefore according to their respective volumes. Had they been included together they would have been higher in quantity and may have appeared higher in the list – potentially at the top! Who wants a dog food based on corn or corn meal based dog food !?!??! Does your dog ?
Rendering companies in the US supply a sizable percentage of dog food manufacturers there for their ingredients. Rendering companies collect all sorts of nasties and blend it into the basis for dog food. Fast food takeaways drums of fat, sitting in out the back in summers heat for weeks prior to collection, slaughterhouse waste, scraped up roadkill, 4-D’s … Diseased, disabled, dying and dead animals, euthanized animals including dogs and cats – complete with toxic flea collars, tags, teeth and nails, the plastic bags they came in. Who’s going to remove these things prior? Are your pets cannibals?
You might think this sounds like a horror story, unfortunately I’m not making it up. At the end of this document is a .pdf file link to a FDA test conducted in 1998 to detect the presence of Sodium pentobarbital in commercial dog foods. Industry leading names are there!
Sodium pentobarbital is the commonly used drug to euthanize sick, dying or unwanted animals. Unfortunately it doesn’t break down during heating and upon rendering the carcasses. When these animals are used in petfoods we end up feeding our pets tiny doses of the very poison that would be used to put them to sleep – for ever.
It is documented that Vets in the US were finding more and more Sodium pentobarbital was being required to euthanize dogs and cats when they had finally come to the end of their lives. Anybody wanna guess why?
If you consider that certain preservatives that have been linked to be potentially carcinogenic causing and therefore banned from the human food chain - but can actually be legally allowed in our pet food. Coupled with the issued I have already raised - is it any wonder some of our pets are dying too early from human type ailments, diseases and cancers well before their time.
Were you aware that an almost identical situation like the Fonterra / San Lu melamine in the milk powder scandal also occurred in 2007 in North America with Pet Food. Menu foods - a major supplier to a huge number of pet food manufacturers inadvertently supplied Chinese contaminated grains to its manufacturing clients and the result, it got blended into pet food. This time 10’s of thousands of pets were affected with some of the highest estimates projecting 20% died from acute renal failure. Unfortunately with animals the record keeping is never as accurate as if they were human and important :(
It also resulted in the largest pet food recall in US history with literally millions of dollars of pet food being pulled back from the shelves. Most major brands were caught up in it in some shape or form. It’s been very well documented on the internet, you can find a lot about these issues in the links at the end of this document.
What am I telling you all these terrible things ...
Well I have a barrow to push. I represent the best dried dog food in the world ORIJEN and brought it to New Zealand. When I discovered all the things I’ve mentioned here, like you - I was shocked. I love dogs and thought I had been feeding my dogs the best food money could buy – for years (actually decades). I was wrong and frankly it didn’t make me feel very good!
I sourced and found a family owned Canadian company with a 30 year history in petood – Champion Petfoods, they witnessed these patterns I’ve described in the industry and decided to do something about it. They created a premium pet food called ‘Orijen’ – a uniquely premium petfood simply leagues above everything else.
Why Orijen is so incredibly different …
DOGFOODANALYSIS.COM
GLYCEMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
If you are concerned about your dog’s nutrition, now you have an alternative. Orijen has been available in New Zealand since Dec 2008 and is rapidly gaining recognition by the New Zealand pet owning public as the best around. Do your pet a favour and put Orijen in their bowl @ their next feed! We guarantee you will witness a new enthusiasm for eating as your pet relishes the premium meat ingredients and healthy inclusions like they have never experienced b4 ...
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?p=359&more=1
http://www.secretdogconspiracy.com/dog-food-secrets.php
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1607483,00.html
http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/hot-topics/hot-topic-petfood-scare.htm
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html
http://www.preciouspets.org/images/DFCHART.pdf
http://www.peta.org.uk/factsheet/files/images/iams%20factsheet_UK72.pdf
http://www.treshanley.com/cic/dangerousfoods.html
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=main
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=protein_myth
http://www.b-naturals.com/newsletter/puppy-protein/
http://www.best-dog-food-guide.com/dog-digestion.html
Some videos …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyBv2wA8tU
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Why Orijen is different ...
Orijen is un-equalled by any other commercial dry pet food. Awarded ‘PetFood of the Year’ by the Glycemic Research Institute of Washington DC as the healthiest petfood in the world and the only 6-star rated dog food available on the New Zealand market – as rated by www.dogfoodanalysis.com.
Why we’re different - the highest inclusion of PREMIUM protein, NO GRAINS, no by-products, nothing imported, only Canadian regionally sourced ingredients, delivered FRESH each day (never frozen), no preservatives or additives, cooked slowly in small batches at low temperatures to preserve all the goodness that nature intended.
When you include the steamed fruits and vegetables, the health promoting botanicals (check ingredients – above left), it’s pretty easy to see why we’re the best. We’re confident your best friend will thrive on Orijen – like no other. If you have any concerns or questions – don’t hesitate to drop us a line … info@orijen.co.nz.
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The skinny on Petfood
Were you aware that almost exactly what happened last year with Fonterra / San Lu, the baby milk powder contaminated with melamine occurred in 2007 in North America with Pet Foods. This time 17,000 pets were reported as ill with an estimated 20% dieing from acute renal failure. It resulted in the largest ever multi-million dollar pet food recall in history across the US in over 100 product lines.
Additionally, banned and potentially carcinogenic causing preservatives that would not be allowed in the human food industry can completely legally be included in our pets food - still.
Grains and low cost fillers that have more to do with economics than actual nutrition are primary ingredients in industry leading pet foods. Carnivores are unable to get the full goodness they require from grains and carbs - yet every commercial dried dog food in NZ has a heavy emphasis on grains, more often than not as their primary ingredients!
READ ON ... Click here to read about more Petfood facts.
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