Dog Health Food - Could There Be Poisons In Your Beagles Food?

Dog Health Food – What Additives Could Be Going Into Your Beagle's Food?

Today more than ever dog health food is a vital key to
keeping your Beagle healthy and free from disease. It can
be hard to find out exactly what really goes into dog food
with less strict labeling laws than on human food.

Contaminated dog food can be in circulation for months
before it gets picked up, and often it's only when there's
a number of dogs getting sick and dying from the food that
a recall is issued. Often quality is being sacrificed for
the sake of profits.

In a bid to increase profits, many dog food manufacturers
are using cheap by products from human food production and
adding it as a protein source. This is can do your dog a
lot of harm over the long term, leading to allergies and
other chronic health issues.

In 2007, over 100 different types of dog food were recalled
after melamine, which is a type of plastic, was found in
many batches. Eventually the food was found to be tainted
from imported rice protein. There are large questions about
whether there is really any nutritional value in rice
protein for dogs in the first place. But what this really
means is that there is a chance that anything could end up
in our dog food.

You may be thinking that this happened in China so I won't
affect you, but many companies around the world are using
imported ingredients from China and other countries that
don't have the same regulation of their food products that
we do in the western world. And when you think that
contaminated milk powder was found recently, it's really
only a matter of time before it happens again.

Even if there's no accidental contamination, your Beagle
could still be at risk from additives that are put into the
dog food, before it reaches the factory. Ethoxyquin is
routinely added to fish meal. Fish meal is then often
promoted as a healthy form of protein. However they neglect
to mention that ethoxyquin has been linked to serious
allergic reactions, cancer and liver failure in dogs. And
that it has been banned for human consumption for decades.

So have a quick look and see if your dog food has fish meal
in it. And just think that if it's present then every meal
your dog has is going to have a dose of carcinogen.

For the sake of your Beagle and it's long term health, you
really need to get educated about dog health food. It is
our responsibility to know what is going into our dog's
food and to make sure that there are no toxic additives. or
preservatives. We all want our best friend's to live a long
and healthy life and it's not hard with a bit of knowledge.

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