The Wife likes reading books, I am more of the technical reading type. As such, I found myself reading the back of some new “Dog Treats” that I had purchase for our mutt, when I ran into something slight to massively disturbing. If you see the featured photo of the ingredients only 1/3rd of them qualify as something you couldn’t buy at the grocery store. That may even be a stretch because you probably can get some things like natural smoke flavoring or vegetable glycerin if you looked hard enough.
I think that the worst part of this dog food ingredients label lets you know how hard our society DOESN’T try to put things we should eat into human food. I don’t think I could find something that has this much varieties of fruit/meat/grain for humans that doesn’t taste like cardboard purchased specifically at a health food store.
Don’t you think it should be easier to find healthy food that doesn’t contain a bunch of science ingredients? Is there anyway around this without cooking everything from scratch?
I would like to get a pet, and see if it would actually eat some of these ingredients such as oatmeal or blueberries.
I don’t care what I feed my dog. He’s a dog.
I once spoke to a nutrition scientists, and she said that we know more about how to properly feed dogs and cats than we do for humans. The reason? Studies have been done with various strict diets given to cats and dogs, and so 100% of their consumption was controlled. And some animals thrived, others became ill or had stunted growth, and so we learned.
But it is unethical to put humans in a box and control their consumption, and it is also unethical to let an experiment go through to completion when it begins to seem that we are witnessing damage to the people due to the experiment. So the ethical concerns make it more difficult to learn about ideals in human diet.