Re: The Anti-BARFers strike back!

[Guest guest]

Yeah, that's why they're all getting cancer, arthritis, losing their

hearing and vision, and so on and so on. Funny how zoos can't get

animals to reproduce successfully until they give them natural

foods. On Mercola (sorry lost the link) he goes into the pet food

manufacturers and how they have economic ties to the pet

pharmacology businesses. In some cases the same ones with the bad

food making our pets sick are the ones making a fortune treating

them for the rest of their lives.

Everyone at the feed store was so sure I was wrong to just give my

hens scratch grains instead of the scientifically formulated

crumbles. My hens are gorgeous and healthy. So what if they don't

all lay an egg a day, I figure the ones they lay are more nutrient

dense from their stores not being depleted. The chicks they raise

are sturdy, strong, and healthy, so unlike the " formula " fed feed

store chicks that are feeble and weak at first by comparison.

--- In , Idol <paul_idol@y...>

wrote:

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> I generally like Salon, but they've just run a depressingly bad

> article. <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/19/raw/> I

> didn't even have the heart to read the whole thing.

>

> Here's the conclusion, for the masochists among you:

>

> >Finally, some animal experts are flabbergasted by the raw feeding

> >debate. Merwick, who rehabilitates wolves at Second Chance

> >Ranch animal rescue sanctuary in Washington state, believes that

> >many of the cures cited by raw feeders -- skin infections,

> >allergies, ear infections -- can be gained by feeding pets a

higher

> >quality of kibble. Oh, and that glossy coat raw feeders brag

about?

> >That's from all the fat in the meat, she says, which can cause

other

> >health problems like pancreatitis. As someone who has seen

> >malnutrition and disease in wolves firsthand, she cautions pet

> >owners against making a fetish out of what animals eat in the

wild.

> > " Our dogs are privileged to have formulated food, " she says.

After

> >all, " we don't eat like cavemen anymore. "

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[Guest guest]

>Finally, some animal experts are flabbergasted by the raw feeding

>debate. Merwick, who rehabilitates wolves at Second Chance

>Ranch animal rescue sanctuary in Washington state, believes that >>

Oh, God, not her again!!

Kathy A.