Look at that website with a very large grain of salt. Many of the ingredients that he lists to avoid are in fact, important to a dog's diet. Some of the stuff the author says is just bogus.
For example, the website says: Potato Product: AAFCO defines this as potato pieces, peeling, culls, etc., obtained from the manufacture of processed potato products for human consumption.
A cheap byproduct of human food processing that has been stripped of much of the nutritional benefits that whole, fresh potatos offer.
Funny that is considered bad, especially because the potato skin has the most nutritional value! If you don't believe me go to nutritiondata.com
If you really want to give your dog the very best diet, think what he would eat in the wild (like a wolf). Do they pick the muscle meat out and leave everything else? NO. In fact, wolves go straight for the organs first, then eat muscle. They even eat all the plant material that was in the herbivores stomach. They finish the whole animal. This being said, "by-products" are not a bad thing in food, but you wouldn't want the only meat source to be by-products, you still want muscle (usually called meal on food packages) too.
Look at the page about giving filtered water. If the chemicals are really that bad, why is it drinking water for humans???
For example, the website says: Potato Product: AAFCO defines this as potato pieces, peeling, culls, etc., obtained from the manufacture of processed potato products for human consumption.
A cheap byproduct of human food processing that has been stripped of much of the nutritional benefits that whole, fresh potatos offer.
Funny that is considered bad, especially because the potato skin has the most nutritional value! If you don't believe me go to nutritiondata.com
If you really want to give your dog the very best diet, think what he would eat in the wild (like a wolf). Do they pick the muscle meat out and leave everything else? NO. In fact, wolves go straight for the organs first, then eat muscle. They even eat all the plant material that was in the herbivores stomach. They finish the whole animal. This being said, "by-products" are not a bad thing in food, but you wouldn't want the only meat source to be by-products, you still want muscle (usually called meal on food packages) too.
Look at the page about giving filtered water. If the chemicals are really that bad, why is it drinking water for humans???
