| In many parts of the world, pet food manufacturers are actively involved with the financial assistance of research at veterinary universities. Unfortunately, this does not ensure total freedom from bias. Whilst vets should be the best people to talk to about animal nutrition, if they have a vested interest, such as profit from the diet they recommend, they cannot be considered impartial.
Those vets who do promote a natural diet are, almost exclusively, those who embrace holistic health care. Here are some quotes from various vets:
“When the moist foods came out, we figured they must have a very strong preservative because they needed no refrigeration. Many of them do have a very strong preservative - formalin. Formalin is such a good preservative, in fact, undertakers use quite a lot of it.”
Thomas A Newland DVM
“Almost all - if not indeed all - cases of hypertension can be traced, I believe, to the commercial foods. I virtually never have to use digitalis or digitoxin anymore.”
S Allen Price DVM
“Do you know what is in most meal, the major constituent of dry dog food? Urine, faecal matter, hair, pus, meat from animals afflicted with cancer, TB, etc.”
Wendell O Belfield DVM
“We just seldom see the so-called inevitable diseases in our patients, when we can get the owners to raise their pets on the natural foods.”
Robert S Goldstein VMD, Marty Goldstein DVM, Richard J Kearns DVM, H H Robertson DVM
“Diet seems to be at the base of about 90%t of the cases of cystitis that I see. When my clients observe the proper diet after initial treatment, there are rarely any of the ‘normal’ relapses. If they put the pet back on commercial food, then the cystitis comes back.”
Nino Aloro DVM
“Dead mothers and dead babies; we seldom see them anymore if the mother is fed a natural diet with supplements.”
John E Craigie DVM, H H Robertson DVM, Richard J Kearns DVM
“I’ve had cases of heart disease that were absolutely given up on by other veterinarians, because the cardiograms indicated there was no hope. Nutritional therapy improved the animals health greatly and has given them years more of life.”
Michael W Lemmon DVM
“What you have to do is to bring the body chemistry back to normal. Once you’ve done that, you can just get rid of the tumours without any problem. I don’t cure the cancer; all I do is put the animal’s body into the shape so it can do the job.”
H H Robertson DVM
“Popular flea collars often contain powerful nerve gases. They can kill some fleas. They can also kill some pets and can do damage to children and adults handling the pet wearing the poisonous flea collar.”
Michael W Lemmon DVM
“I haven’t had a single case of hip dysplasia since I started using vitamin C for prevention five years ago. Before that, I used to do one or two dysplasia operations every week.”
R Geoffrey Broderick DVM
“I suppose we veterinarians who do a lot of work with skin and hair problems ought to thank the commercial pet food manufacturers for all the business they create for us.”
J Keith Benedict DVM
“We can get most of our animals with heart problems off drugs, when people go along with me in using natural foods and natural supplements.”
Richard J Kearns DVM
“Bladder stones and kidney stones are completely a nutritional problem. We have never seen a recurrence once the animal is put on a natural diet. Never.”
Richard J Kearns DVM, Norman C Ralston DVM
“I believe all cases of spinal myelopathy are caused by poor nutrition, sometimes going back to the mother’s nutrition during pregnancy.”
Richard J Kearns DVM
“I’ve been dealing with feline leukaemia for years; and I get disgusted with most veterinarians who advocate test and slaughter - that is if the cat tests positive, it’s best to kill it. We’ve had cats who have been able to climb trees and look normal in less than ten weeks. And I’m talking about cats who were brought in to us too weak even to stand up.”
S Allen Price DVM
“Foods are so complex, we still don’t understand them. For example, researchers discovered that cats need taurine, an amino acids only found in animal tissue, which is lost through cooking. Now it is added to cat foods and supplements. Rather than wait for more such discoveries, it is better to provide animals with the diet that most closely resembles their evolutionary history.”
Richard Pitcairn DVM, PhD |
