Super Bowl Commercial Causes Veterinarian Rant

I hope the truth about the benefits of human-grade food and the dangers in 4-D extruded feed-grade will continue to spread. For credibility’s sake though for anyone who might use this against the truth, is your percentage for pet food recalls in proportion to the amount sold, since naturally kibble is the majority of pet food sold there will definitely be more total pounds worth in recalls since there’s more of it. Of course I’m not saying it’s a low, reasonable, or acceptable amount of recalls in the kibble industry by any means!! I’m just saying so that it doesn’t seem to them as if we’re trying to play dirty or something and not playing fair. I hope this makes sense. All love thank you so much for all your hard work, articles, and helping me learn and decide what to feed my pets 💕

Oh man…that vet is truly uneducated. Humans are always told to eat whole fresh foods to be healthy and to stay away from processed food. Logically, why would this kot be true for other living creatures? Can this vet please do a post where she reads the ingredients of the kibble she promotes and explain them all? Just look at zoos and animal sanctuaries …why don’t they feed a form of kibble to those animals? Thank you to Susan for being such an advocate for the lives of our pets!

Sorry but that Vet isn’t too smart if she does not know that fruits and veggies are often recalled for bacteria like salmonella, Listeria or E-coli. Does she go on a rant whenever she sees lettuce advertised after the almost year of recalls on Romain lettuce? Does she tell people not to ever handle or eat cantaloupe after the largest recall was for Listeria found in cantaloupes and there were deaths involved? She pushes kibble but does she have any numbers of how many dogs have died from kibble recalls? 2007 recall of something like 50 commercial dog food brands due to poison in the wheat glutton or the more recent commercial dog food recalls for excess vitamin D. Thousands of dogs & cats died from kibble..how many known deaths from raw feeding???

Until 75 years ago, fresh raw/cooked food was the norm for dogs, and they lived longer, healthier lives.

FDA has warnings about handling/feeding raw foods, sure, but they also have some very interesting recommendations for handling dry (kibble) foods. Vets tend to warn people about the dangers raw foods present (and yes, they do, but people would never touch raw meat and not wash their hands, even a 6 year old knows this), but on one thinks twice about scooping kibble out of a bin (that’s rarely washed) with a scoop(that is rarely washed) into a bowl (again, rarely washed) and then eating their breakfast without washing their hands. This is how in 2007 and 2012 the CDC tracked multistate outbreaks of Salmonella IN PEOPLE directly linked to dry dog food. Google it.

Here’s the FDA kibble handling recommendations:

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/tips-safe-handling-pet-food-and-treats

Pretty scary, and I have never heard of a Veterinarian warning clients about the proper handling of dry foods, as per FDA recommendations. Ever. But they seem to need to weigh in on raw food handling. I’m more confident in a properly prepared and handled frozen raw food being safe than a feed grade ingredient kibble that has a 18 month shelf life, unrefrigerated. Heck, I don’t trust a cooked roast of beef after a week in the fridge, how is there “meat” in a kibble that’s safe after 18 months at room temp?

I would like to know because I am truly curious. When vets are students in veterinary school, how many hours are spent learning about nutrition & who is it taught by? I was told years ago that vet students received less than an hour per semester dedicated to learning about nutrition & that it was basically a lecture by a rep from Purina. I’m very curious if this is infact the case.

Wonder what’s in her dog’s SUPPER BOWL? She pushes kibble because that’s what makes her money. She profits off the foods when she sells it, then again when the dog gets sick. She’s creating a perpetual income stream. I’ve been making/selling raw for 17 years and have never had to recall products, for two reasons. We only buy human-grade ingredients & we handle it properly. Our customers are smart enough to wash their hands & dog bowls, just like they do with their own food! The big pet food manufacturers use their companies as dumping sites for their human food companies. I understand that Hill’s is the provider of the two weeks nutritional training that is provided in vet school! The vets and pet food manufacturers should be forced to eat what they sell. I know I do!