Top Dog Food
Why does Dog Food contain CORN when the manufacturers KNOW dog’s cant digest corn?
a few “top” Dog Food Brands have corn in them. On the bag it states that same they all say, “It’s the best for your dog” What’s the best? Adding CORN as a temporary filler so the dog gets full then poops it back out and gains no nutrients from the food?
The dog food industry actually started as a profitable way of getting rid of a bumper wheat crop. Pet foods were made with whatever was left over or not fit for human consumption and that line of thinking is the same today as it was then. The major dog food companies are for their bottom line- Most of them are owned by human food companies and it just makes sense to send all their biproducts and excess grain to the Pet Food plant. For example, Purina and Nutro are owned by Nestle, and Iams and Eukenuba are owned by Proctor and Gamble.
Additionally, companies like Hills (Science Diet) have invaded Vet schools by either sponsoring the student’s only nutrition class (gee, I wonder what those vet students learn- that the ingredients in Science diet are bad- I think not) OR – they pay for a vet student’s education in exchange that upon graduation, the vet recommends their pet food for 10 years- not to mention the trips to Hawaii they offer vets if they sell a certain amount of food.
So the answer to your question is that corn has been pretty cheap (except very recently), it provides a lot of cheap protein for dogs when compared to animal-based sources of protein and since feeding studies never have to go beyond three years or even compare different foods to each other. The only research being done is funded by the pet food companies themselves and all they care about is that the dogs are healthy enough to call the food “good enough not to cause noticible short-term health issues” not “what are the most nutritious ingredients that we can pack into this dog food”
BASE Jumping, so easy a sack of dog food can do it.
