Avoid Harmful Food for Your Dog

Think about this: Dogs are carnivores, right?

Then why does kibble contain mostly vegetable matter and grains?

These are the ingredients from a popular pet food brand for overweight dogs:

"Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, soybean hulls*, whole wheat flour, rice flour, chicken, soy flour, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), sugar, animal digest, tricalcium phosphate, sorbitol, water, salt, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, sorbic acid (a preservative), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried green beans, dried carrots, calcium carbonate, calcium propionate (a preservative), choline chloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), zinc sulfate, added color (Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2), DL-Methionine, ferrous sulfate, glyceryl monostearate, manganese sulfate, niacin, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite. A-4091
*14% - a source of fiber" (Ingredients copied from ingredient list from popular pet kibble sold at most supermarkets.

What is the first ingredient? Corn! Corn has no benefits to humans, and certainly not dogs. Our systems and dogs' systems just cannot break corn down.

The next ingredient chicken by-product meal. What is that? "By-products?" Is it really chicken? The third major ingredient corn again, then soybean.

Near the top is also "animal digest." According to wikipedia, animal digest is "a common ingredient used in pet foods. As defined by the AAFCO, it is produced by chemically or enzymatically treating animal tissue (such as flesh, bone, organs, etc.) from slaughterhouses and other sources, in a process akin to rendering." Chemicals.

If you read the labels of many of the dog food kibbles you can purchase in your average supermarket, you will find that most read akin to this list.