Moist Dog Food

If you feed your dog the moist dog food in packets, you are not a label reader and the dog food manufacturers have you fooled.

Find out why these are toxic and the worst of bad dog foods.

I read the ingredients maybe twenty years ago, and aghast, I never thought about moist dog food again.

Then recently when an acquaintance was complaining about her little dogs having all sorts of health problems, it got stuck in my mind. I knew what her dogs ate because I watched over them while she was out of town.

I copied the ingredients right from the Purina website for moist and meaty. It's posted near the bottom of this page. I'll just give you some highlights of a few ingredients.

Personally I don't see any food in it. I'll let you imagine what the beef by-product is. Soy doesn't do much for dogs either.

However, you should have a hissy fit over corn syrup being both the 4th and 7th ingredients! If you add these sugars up, that must rank them at at least the third position. Candy for our dog's main meal? Don't we have enough dogs with diabetes?

The Problem With Ethoxyquin

Ethoxyquin was concocted back in the 1950s as a rubber stabilizer for tires. While it preserves food forever, it's also considered a huge health risk and requests for its ban to the Food and Drug Administration, Division of Animal Feeds (U.S.) have been ignored since 1992.

Researchers in Australia, Norway and Mexico found significant degradation to livers and kidneys from ethoxyquin.

The Animal Protection Institute of America (APIA) associates it with skin and hair coat problems, immune disorders, thyroid, pancreas and behavior disorders, infertility, neonatal illness, cancer and death.

Did you notice pancreas disorders? Team that up with the corn syrup and you get a double whammy. Could the combination of these ingredients induce diabetes in dogs?

The last ingredients in moist dog food I'll mention are dyes. Yes, many food colors are toxic and there is an array listed. But of course dyes are needed to make this concoction look moist and meaty!

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PURINA® BRAND MOIST & MEATY® DOG FOOD - BURGER WITH CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVOR

INGREDIENTS: Beef by-product, soy grits, soy flour, high fructose corn syrup, wheat flour, water, corn syrup, beef, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, salt, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), sorbic acid (a preservative), dried cheese powder (predominantly cheddar cheese), calcium propionate (a preservative), DL-Methionine, choline chloride, added color (Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5 and other color), zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate,
ethoxyquin (a preservative), Vitamin E supplement, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite. A-4104

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