| Why would you want to take the time and effort to | | | | Meat by-products are clean parts of slaughtered |
| make your dog's food? You have to shop for the | | | | animals, not including meat. These include lungs, spleen, |
| ingredients and then you have to cook the food, and | | | | kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, and stomach and |
| God knows, you already have enough to do with the | | | | intestines freed of their contents. It does not include |
| job, the kid and their activities, and keeping the house | | | | hair, horns, teeth, or hooves. If the source isn't specified, |
| together. Why not just buy a commercial food? There | | | | it can be from "downer" animals, animals diseased, |
| are plenty of commercial healthy dog foods, aren't | | | | disabled, or dying before slaughter. It can also be from |
| there? Maybe yes and maybe no. | | | | any animal other than a cow, and it can even be from |
| Have you ever read the ingredients in a can of dog | | | | animals euthanized at animal shelters. |
| food? Do you know what all of the ingredients are? | | | | Fish meal is the clean, rendered, dried ground tissue of |
| For example, do you know what BHA and BHT are, | | | | undecomposed whole fish or fish cuttings, either or |
| what meat by-products are, what fish meal is? If | | | | both, with or without the extraction of part of the oil. If |
| you're going to give food containing these ingredients | | | | the source isn't specified, you never know the type or |
| to a member of your family - and your dog is a | | | | quality of fish, and if the fish meal isn't specifically |
| member of your family - you really should know what | | | | stated to be of "human quality" it has probably been |
| they are. | | | | preserved with Ethoxyquin. It has been linked to a |
| BHA and BHT are antioxidants used to preserve fats. | | | | number of illnesses, including cancer. |
| Seems okay. However, they have been banned from | | | | You wouldn't deliberately eat any of these things |
| human use by many countries because they may | | | | yourself. Why would you knowingly feed them to your |
| possibly be human carcinogens and have been | | | | dog? Hopefully, you wouldn't. If you make your dog's |
| demonstrated to be carcinogenic in animal | | | | food, you know the quality and nutritional value of the |
| experiments. BHA and BHT use is still permitted in the | | | | ingredients you use. The truly 100% safest healthy dog |
| U.S. | | | | foods are the ones you make yourself. |