Ohio State College Veterinary Faculty web site has a VERY deceptive submit titled “Myths and Misconceptions Surrounding Pet Meals“. Curiously (however not stunning), just below the title readers will see “Vital Data from Purina Veterinary Diets” which is definitely a hyperlink to a Purina webpage that mainly states the identical misinformation as what’s acknowledged on the Ohio State Vet Faculty web site.
The fiction from Ohio State:
#1. “Like grain-free diets, there isn’t any scientific proof that feeding a uncooked vs. a traditional weight loss plan is any extra helpful to an animal’s well being. Nevertheless there may be ample proof that it isn’t. Furthermore, these diets even have generated controversy attributable to their elevated danger for microbial contamination.“
False.
The correct info is kibble diets (typical diets) have a considerably elevated danger for microbial contamination, not uncooked diets. Based mostly on FDA information (Enforcement Experiences) of recalled pet meals since 2012….
Greater than 159 million kilos of kibble pet meals has been recalled for microbial contamination.
As in comparison with:
1.5 million kilos of uncooked pet meals has been recalled for microbial contamination.
#2. Ohio State Vet Faculty tells readers a rendered ingredient is “higher than” contemporary meat. Quoting: “Many individuals have been led to imagine that entire meat is best than meat meal, simply based mostly on the title. That is merely not true.“
False. Their “merely not true” is totally true.
All meat meal substances are feed grade, some pet meals meat substances are feed grade – some are human grade. Human grade substances are far superior to feed grade as a result of they’re legally ‘edible’. Feed grade substances are immediately allowed by FDA to be ‘inedible’ – sourced from diseased animals and animals that died aside from by slaughter (Supply “Last Response Letter from FDA CVM to Affiliation for Fact in Pet Meals” https://www.laws.gov/docket?D=FDA-2016-P-3578).
#3. Ohio State Veterinary Faculty praises corn as an exquisite supply of vitamin.
Deceptive as a result of they neglect to say the dangers.
The Vet Faculty web site states: “corn gives a nutritious, reasonably priced supply of carbohydrate for power, important amino and fatty acids for wholesome pores and skin, coat and immune system perform, and a wide range of different vitamins.”
Sure, corn does present vitamins to the weight loss plan – however corn in pet meals additionally comes with important dangers. In 2020, 94% of all recalled pet meals (based mostly on kilos) was for aflatoxin contaminated corn. Greater than 130 canines died in 2021 attributable to aflatoxin contaminated corn in pet food.
Did Ohio State Veterinary Faculty put their fame in danger by permitting Purina to talk for them on their web site? Was this pet meals fiction truly written by Purina or is that this veterinary faculty truly VERY uneducated about pet meals?
Private opinion: Ohio State Veterinary Faculty needs to be embarrassed that they themselves are contributing to pet meals myths.
My because of the pet proprietor that shared this Ohio State fiction with me.
Wishing you and your pet the most effective –
Susan Thixton
Pet Meals Security Advocate
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