With that in mind about dog food companies trying to push their products so hard, and even lying, it makes me more inclined to believe in a raw food diet or home prepared diet, because the folks who have done that research aren't going to make any profit at all if you feed your dog home-prepared meals. There's nothing in it for them, they just really honestly want your dog to be healthy.
They may be very honest, but sometimes ill-informed, when it comes to over-the-counter ingredients. I believe it will take a few hundred years' leap back to acquire truly healthy meat, dairy, seafood, grains, fruits and vegetables.
It is so bad out there throughout the world that countries that are extremely proud of their "organic, GMO-free" harvests are actually threatened by the U.S. with acts like being kicked out of international organizations and trade bargains if they refuse to accept import of U.S. biologically engineered crops.
In some cases, it is even illegal to bring seeds of veggies like carrots, etc., that are REAL, untampered, across borders into the U.S.
I don't know. I am sure many, many things that I do are extremely unhealthy. I have a Pur Water Filter for the dogs' water and we drink "bottled" water, which probably doesn't matter. Oh, wait! The sewage treatment plant blew a barrel and blasted a man into the afterlife last year, hence leaking sewage into the good ol' boys' Spokane River....Ughhh
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It is very difficult. I mean, on a microscopic level, I feel I cannot even say that my vegetable garden in the back yard is truly organic. After all, the pollutants that are flung through the air from a busy thoroughfare a block away must stick to veggie leaves.
I probably sound neurotic here, but really I am not, because I decided that it only contributes to anxiety issues to try too hard to find answers to all of the chemical situations out there. There are so many in power with big money who really do not care at all about us as individuals, only as numbers and casualties, and I can tell you right now that during the making of a HUGE percentage of their products, even those who say they do not, administer gruesome tests on animals, including cats, monkeys and even our dogs. Suffice to say that they also use segments of the population as guinea pigs.
But you guys have me thinking now about looking into other types of food. I still can't say whether I trust ANYTHING much anymore. By far I do not think I have a "defeatest" attitude, because I do not choose the cheapest routes, but the ones that weigh out, at least, logically in my mind.
Sorry if what I've said is depressing. It is a CONUNDRUM for me!
And the really funny part is that somehow I think the meat from the grocers is really bad for people, but I do eat some...I need to be slapped!