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BY-PRODUCTS MEALS
"TO USE
OR NOT TO USE"
Dogs and cats have
come to us over the millennia unchanged. The diets that assured
their survival were composed of internal organs (today they are called
by-products), flesh, fat, bone, and blood. It is an indisputable
fact that each component of their diet is critically important.
Animals consuming these diets exclusively have no allergies, no bloat,
and no torsion. None experience breakdowns during growth (hip
dysplasia and PANO, etc.). They have no reproductive disorders, no
gastrointestinal breakdowns, thyroid, kidney, heart problems, diabetes, or
urinary tract blockages; these breakdowns and others are all
nonexistent on properly structured diets containing large supplies of
by-products.
While the nutritional
needs of companion carnivores have not changed, what is being offered in
the marketplace has. Without scientific justification, and lacking
all common sense, various misinformed individuals have chosen to
discourage the inclusion of by-products in dog food. By so doing, as
you will learn from this article, diets today have diverged so radically
from the proven diets that have sustained small carnivores over millions
of years that virtually every animal today is at risk.
Here is what has
happened: many of today's diets, especially those where the first
ingredient is fresh beef muscle meat or fresh chicken that do not contain
quality by-products meals are at fault. These so-called "fresh
meat" or "fresh chicken-based" foods are nothing more than cleverly
disguised grain-based diets. The bulk of the protein in these diets
is grain protein (gluten), which is a protein with the lower
nutritional value that also causes undesirable side effects in the
animal.
Here is a typical
example of how industry represents a gluten-based food as a "meat"-based
food.
The overriding point
about these diets that feature fresh meat or fresh chicken mixed into a
dry kibble is that only 20% of the formula can be fresh meat or
chicken. 20% of one pound (454 grams) is 90.8 grams. Of that
90.8 grams of "meat" 75% is moisture, leaving 22.7 grams of solids, of
which about half or 11.35 grams is protein. Since most dry diets
contain 25% protein or 113.5 grams, 11.35 grams of fresh meat solids
represents only 10% of the protein in the diet. In order to
properly fill the protein requirement of the diet, an additional
102.15 grams of animal protein solids are needed. Without
by-products meals there is no way to meet the protein levels needed
to match the dependable diets of old. Without the use of by-products
meals, the only other ingredients available in the marketplace from which
to reach the needed protein levels are inferior grain protein (gluten) or
dangerous soy. When "fresh" chicken is used in place of beef muscle
meat, the law allows chicken skin to be used in place of chicken
while still listing it as chicken; therefore there is no way to discover
how much of the chicken is chicken skin, a much lower quality protein
source. Another noteworthy point is that the beef muscle meat used
in kibbled dog food is almost exclusively derived from downed animals,
whereas chicken or poultry by-products meals are of equal
nutritional quality (or higher) as fresh beef or whole chicken and are
derived primarily from animals slaughtered for human consumption.
Because people generally do not consume by-products, enormous quantities
derived from animals slaughtered for human consumption are available for
the feeding of animals. This is the opposite of many misconceptions
advanced by popular sources of misinformation.
The best solution are
the diets closest to those that have sustained animals over the
millennia. First and foremost is the Abady granular Formula for
Maintenance and Stress. 93.3% of the protein in the diet (on a
solids basis) is of the highest quality animal protein, containing the
ideal ratios of flesh from select menhaden fish meal to valuable chicken
by-products meals and beef meals.
If a kibbled formula
is desired, Abady's Allstar contains both red meat and an excellent
complement of chicken by-products meal and beef meal, with 81% of the
protein coming from animal sources. A second highly desirable
kibbled formula is Abady's New Frontier whole chicken meal formula
(83% of the protein is derived from animal sources).
Clearly for a diet
to be successful, one of the most important aspects is the liberal
inclusion of by-products meals. For other essential factors that
will assure good health in your companion carnivores, write to The Robert
Abady Dog Food Company for more information at: 201 Smith Street,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, or call us at (845) 473-1900.
The Robert Abady
Dog & Cat Food Company, Ltd.
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