The Truth About Pet Foods

A groundbreaking book exposing the dangerous myths of today’s pet food industry. For more than fifty years people have been filling their pets’ bowls with processed foods. This is done with full confidence that manufacturers have things all figured out. After all, the label says, "100% complete and balanced." It would seem that the case is closed on pet nutrition. But this exposé, by a veterinary surgeon, clinician, teacher, researcher, and food scientist, tells another story. Pets exclusively fed processed foods are in jeopardy. Untold thousands of animals have suffered disease and death at the hands of this modern feeding practice. Neither nutritionists tweaking percentages, so-called "natural" foods, or eliminating boogeyman ingredients have solved the disaster. Such disease—cancer, arthritis, obesity, dental degeneration, and so on—is not always immediate, but rather insidious and progressive. So the cause—singularly fed processed food—is not identified as the culprit it is. The