Is all dog food bad? What the heck do I feed my dogs then?!?

[Moochie]

Moochie, walk it off. Life lesson: Politicians, vegans, and animal rights activists tell lies to try to manipulate people into doing as they want. What they want is often not good for you and not one of those 3 types are the place to get advice about what to eat.

I hate it when they say "if you say you love animals and you eat meat you are a hypocrite" and they try to make to feel bad to convert... I love echidnas and I ate bacon today ... I also don't see how going vegan or vegetarian saves animals' lives, they get killed anyways right? What do they mean by that? They don't eat meat so one steer doesn't get killed? This confuses me greatly.
I've heard that people who eat meat don't poop as often as people who are animal product free.

 

[Crafty-Duck]

About dog food! my only advice to everyone is avoid dog food and treats that have animal digest in them!!!!!! Google it! when you start reading about it you will be horrified at what they put in some dog foods.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I hate it when they say "if you say you love animals and you eat meat you are a hypocrite" and they try to make to feel bad to convert... I love echidnas and I ate bacon today ... I also don't see how going vegan or vegetarian saves animals' lives, they get killed anyways right? What do they mean by that? They don't eat meat so one steer doesn't get killed? This confuses me greatly.
I've heard that people who eat meat don't poop as often as people who are animal product free.

One that always confuses me is people who are extremely vocal about animal rights and who are vegetarian/vegan so as not to exploit animals, but then have pets. There is so much to be said about the centuries of cruel breeding practices to get cute fuzzy pets, and now we're starting to "pet" even more species. There is something about using animals as surrogate friends/family that disturbs me anyway, but to not approve of, say, eating eggs from pet chickens (like so many of us here at BYC do), but then having a cat or dog just confuses me.

Yes, I have a dog and cats and fish and chickens and duck ... and I love them to bits ... and I act like they are my children ... but I have rather mixed feelings about it. In some ways I feel better about the animals that provide eggs, etc., than the ones I use for affection and entertainment.

 

[ChickensRDinos]

People have lots of different reasons to be vegetarian or vegan. I don't think its fair to group them all under a single umbrella. I know a number of people who do not eat meat and many of them believe very different things. The choice can be personal, political or religious. For some people I know it is not necessarily about not eating animals, it is a choice to not financially contribute in any way that supports current commercial farming or animal testing practices. While I do not fully agree I can understand this practice as I also choose not to buy from certain businesses based on my set of personal and political beliefs.

You can decide to not support puppy mills and other pet practices that you find distasteful and still rescue a dog that is about to be euthanized in the hope of giving a living thing a better life, or a life at all. I think sometimes it is about working within the system to make changes and provided awareness.

I'm not really sure why vegetarians get singled out as being pushy as that has not been my experience. They certainly aren't the ones ringing my doorbell every Sunday when it's way to early to be doing so. But, just like PETA, the folks at my door are just a loud sub-sect of a group of people with varying motives and points of view so I try to refrain from blaming all the members of the church down the road.

 

[naturalfeddogs]

About dog food! my only advice to everyone is avoid dog food and treats that have animal digest in them!!!!!! Google it! when you start reading about it you will be horrified at what they put in some dog foods.

That's exactly why I have been feeding prey model raw for years. Really, It's a no brainer. It just takes some time to learn how to approach it and getting some sources together.