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.
Q 1: Discuss how the SEC has influence (if any) over the audit of Smackey Dog Food, Inc
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...
These freeze-dried beef burgers come in both 5-patty packs and individual servings. Made from beef, liver, finely ground bone and cereal food fines these patties work well as a supplement to a meal, a treat or even the occasional meal on the go.
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It is very likely that most animal products found in any given grocery store came from what it referred to as a factory farm. Factory farms like Perdue are large-scale farms that produce mass quantities of food whether it is animal or otherwise. Recently the owners of these factory farms have come under some harsh criticism when it comes to the way their animals are treated on the farms. Claims of abuse and mistreatment have resulted in an overall negative view of factory farms and their products. Animal rights activists such as Mercy For Animals are working to fight against factory farms such as Perdue to seek justice for the allegedly mistreated farm animals.
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Food labels like Cage Free and Vegetarian Fed lead consumers into the dangerous trap of thinking they are buying better products from happier animals when the opposite is true. The term Cage
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Simple household items such as lotions, shampoos and cosmetics aren’t very expensive and are within reach for the public, yet the public is not knowledgeable of the fact that the products that they use everyday are put through a series of tests which involve the use of harmless animals. Several large commercial companies do not make products for animals; they decide that using these harmless creatures for the testing of their products, could be cause to be harmful to animals still go forward with these types of procedures on an everyday basis. Although these animals are unable to defend themselves or signs of any form of consent for the near death procedures, these companies find this as a cheap solution for testing their products before placing them on the market. There are many other alternatives to testing animals such as embryonic stem cell research. Animal experimentation is wrong and it can be avoided but companies which are greedy for money chose not to.
There are many debates around the world about the topic of animal abuse. Animal abuse in the food industry has become a major problem due to the cruel treatment of animals. Most of the world's population might think that animal cruelty is only found in homes and on the street, but they forget about the other forms of animal abuse that affect the food industry. Large contributors to animal abuse are due to fishing methods, animal testing, and slaughterhouses. "Animals have always been a major part of our society in history and they have played huge roles in agriculture" (ASPCA). Factory farming is a system of confining chickens, pigs, and cattle under strictly controlled conditions. Slaughterhouses are places where animals are killed
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It is horrifying to know the fact that the processed food that we eat today is once animals that are processed alive. The ignorance of the companies has caused the suffering of these poor animals. Gale (2013) writes, “.[media] do not tell us that chickens are the most tortured animals in factory farms and that most chickens have to stand on their own feces all day and end up getting litter burn from their manure. hens are often crammed together in cases so tiny that they do not get enough room to even lift a single wing—which then immobilizes them for their entire lives.”
It is no coincidence that well fed dogs are usually the happiest and healthiest dogs. Just like people, dogs need to eat a well balanced diet to maintain their health and live long, active lives. Dog nutrition is very similar to human nutrition, but dogs are not people. They are unique animals with dietary needs based on centuries of evolution. While dogs are more omnivorous than pure carnivores like cats, they are not true omnivores like human beings. They evolved from wolves, so they tend to do best on meat based diets.