[Dailydrool] Pancreatitis, kibble, cooking for them

[AnitaW]

I can't prove why some dogs get pancreatitis and others don't, probably no
one can, but we all probably agree it has to do with what the dogs are
eating.  So the great pet food debate rears its ugly head again.  I would
like to point out  that there are a few things we all need to think about
while engaging in the great food debate.  

 

There was no such thing as dog or cat food (dry or canned) until the 1930s,
when the meat processing and grain processing industries got together to try
to figure out what to do with the leftover byproducts that can't be used for
people food.  They came up with pet food.  Stuff that can't be put in people
food.  That's part of what is in kibble.  

 

Domesticated animals have been fed table scraps for thousands of years and
they flourished.  However, we all need to think about something else here -
up until some time in the 1960s, most Moms stayed home, and they cooked all
our meals from mostly fresh ingredients - there were no fast food joints on
every corner, no frozen "convenience" foods full of chemicals and
preservatives and hydrogenated fats and oils, and eating out at restaurants
was a rare treat.  

 

Food today is nothing like the food our parents and grandparents were raised
on.  Which means, table scraps today are generally not like table scraps
used to be.  Most people in "civilized" countries have very unhealthy diets
today.  Feeding a dog leftover fast food is maybe okay once in a blue moon,
but there are some dogs that have very touchy tummies, just like some
people, and junk food may do in one dog and not others.  Feeding a dog table
scraps is not automatically good or bad, it depends on whether we're talking
freshly cooked, nutritious food (like my 83 year old Mom still cooks), or
something nuked out of a box.  Big difference here.  

 

Many people eat terrible diets today, why do you think there's so much
asthma, allergies, cancer, diabetes, obesity, autism, etc.?  Dogs and cats
eat terrible diets today, too, which explains a lot of the health problems
that they have.  Is it better to feed kibble, with all the byproducts and
chemicals, or is it better to feed people food?  Depends on the quality of
the people food, a lot of it is full of chemicals and junk, too.   It's
always better to feed fresh, home cooked, no preservatives and chemicals
added food.  For pets and for people.  What do you do?  

 

Anita Woodrum

a.woodrum at sbcglobal.net

 

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