Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: The non-profit Consumer Wellness Center today posted a detailed nutritional review of 570 pet food ingredients commonly found in pet food products (both canned and dry). The list, created by a joint effort between pet food formulator Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D. (www.Azmira.com), consumer health advocate Mike Adams (www.HealthRanger.org) and the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org), tells the blatant truth about harmful, disease-promoting ingredients commonly used in pet food products across North America. | | Worst pet food ingredients (which lists all the 1-star ingredients, indicating low- quality or hazardous ingredients).
"Given the atrocious track record of pet food safety in the United States, we felt an urgent need to publish a tell-all reference guide that had the courage to reveal the truth about commonly used pet food ingredients," said Mike Adams, the executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center. | | The list, created by a joint effort between pet food formulator Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D. (www.Azmira.com), consumer health advocate Mike Adams (www.HealthRanger.org) and the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org), tells the blatant truth about harmful, disease-promoting ingredients commonly used in pet food products across North America. The complete list has been posted at natural health news site NewsTarget.com: http://www.newstarget.com/Report_pet_food_ingredients_0. | | Her line of pet food products is called "Azmira" and is available at www.Azmira.com
Mike Adams, aka the "Health Ranger," is an outspoken consumer health advocate and author of the book, "Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them" available at www.TruthPublishing.com
Both are pet owners and practicing holistic nutritionists who believe that good nutrition is the key to preventing disease and enhancing health. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts |  To make it appear that a protein source is the number one ingredient in the pet food, the company splits the corn up into two categories; ground yellow corn and corn gluten meal.
This can be problematic for consumers who believe a dry food is sufficient for their animal companions, especially cats. Cats are carnivores and require a good source of meat in their diets. So pet owners who think it's okay to just feed their cats a dry food are not providing a healthy diet. Grains will not provide the cat with sufficient amounts of taurine, arachidonic acid, vitamin A or vitamin B-12. | | According to AAFCO, there is a long list of corn products that can be used in pet food. These include, but are not limited to, the following ingredients.
Corn flour: This is the fine-size, hard flinty portion of ground corn containing little or none of the bran or germ. Corn bran: This is the outer coating of the corn kernel, with little or none of the starchy part of the germ. | | Blood from these animals can be used in pet food, either mixed with other materials in the rendering process, or formed into the meat chunks that are found in some canned foods.
Dehydrated food-waste is any and all animal and vegetable produce picked up from basic food processing sources or institutions, including garbage from hospitals, restaurants, and grocery stores. The produce has to be picked up daily or sufficiently often so that no decomposition is evident. With this ingredient, it seems that what you don't see won't hurt you. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Her line of pet food products is called "Azmira" and is available at www.Azmira.com
Mike Adams, aka the "Health Ranger," is an outspoken consumer health advocate and author of the book, "Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them" available at www.TruthPublishing.com
Both are pet owners and practicing holistic nutritionists who believe that good nutrition is the key to preventing disease and enhancing health. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts | | Animal Experimentation
One pet food company in particular, lams, has attracted a lot of negative publicity in the last few years because of the research the company has undertaken. The Sunday Express, a British newspaper, reported on these atrocities in May 2001, "Our investigation has revealed that hundreds of animals suffered incredible agony in experiments designed to perfect lams. A huge dossier of research papers exposes how scientists deliberately induced kidney failure and other condirions in dogs and cats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We know this from a San Francisco Chronicle investigative report, which followed euthanized dogs and cats from clinics directly to the rendering plants and directly to the pet food industry.
Mike: Okay, so just as a reality check to people listening, you're saying that when dogs and cats are put to sleep, some of those end up in the pet food supply?
Newman: That's right, because they are "protein." They are animal meat, and the way that they show up on the labels is as animal meat or animal meat byproducts.
Mike: Is this allowed by regulators? |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts | | Seven -
Animal Experimentation and pet food Companies
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1 hmiighr.nr the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and many other countries, university laboratories are undertaking experiments on live dogs and cats for a variety of reasons. Many of these experiments are done in complete secrecy ro prevent animal rights activists from protesting. However, since 1992 when the federal government passed a law making acts of vandalism in research clinics a federal offense, there has been a decrease in protests by demonstrators such as those with the Animal Liberation Front. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That's what is being used in the pet food.
Mike: This is just another case where the label or the packaging contains misleading marketing claims. It says organic meat, but it is what you just described.
Newman: It could be a 3-D or 4-D meat that just started out as an organic meat but was dying, diseased, disabled or dead.
Mike: So, how do consumers protect themselves and make the right choice?
Newman: The feedback we get from our consumers is that we are the only company willing to talk about our food.
Mike: That's scary.
Newman: It is scary. | | And those are the organic vegetables that go into organic pet food. The meats are often trim pieces, not the whole muscle meat, because you can't afford it. I know, because probably one of the largest organic suppliers in the country came to us at a trade show and said, "You should put our brand of organic meat in your dog food because we have this other company doing it, and we're trying to expand into the market." I said, "Well, tell me what a whole pound of muscle meat would cost me. He said, "You couldn't afford to use whole muscle meat; we sell the trim pieces. | | I hear this all the time about people food, and I'm sure the same is true for pet food. People complain about the cost. They say, "Oh, I can't afford to spend another 50 cents a meal on my dog." For my last dog, I spent $1,000 in the emergency room in one day. Isn't it cheaper to keep your pet healthy?
Newman: Absolutely. What people often find when they start on Azmira is that they were easily spending $100 to $500 the year before on vet care. After they start using Azmira, they find they are spending $60 a year and going to the vet once a year for their checkup. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Mike: Okay, so just as a reality check to people listening, you're saying that when dogs and cats are put to sleep, some of those end up in the pet food supply?
Newman: That's right, because they are "protein." They are animal meat, and the way that they show up on the labels is as animal meat or animal meat byproducts.
Mike: Is this allowed by regulators?
Newman: It is not only allowed by regulators, it is actually encouraged by regulators. | | They go right into the pet food ingredients as protein.
Mike: Is there something wrong with swamp rats? I don't know. It doesn't sound appetizing.
Newman: I don't think the meat is all that bad, but they grind up the entire rat. You have the disease that occurs in the swamp rats. You have the handling method. They kill these swamp rats and put them in storage, which is just a container sitting on a shore. How long do the swamp rats last out of refrigeration?
So, now you have rancid, putrefying meat. | | I finally got so disgusted that I decided one day to make my own pet food, because when you're consulting, your reputation means a lot to you -- at least it did for me. My goal was to get the animals healthy. I couldn't believe that I was referring different herbs and homeopathic remedies that I knew should be working, and they didn't work. When I dug a little deeper, I found out that pets would have it on a chemical-based, putrefied meat-based diet. So, it didn't matter what the homeopathic remedy or herbal remedies were. They were fighting this putrefied diet. | | Ethoxiquin is a common stabilizer in pet food. It is a rubber and lethal herbicide. It is two chemical compositions away from Agent Orange. So, it does the same thing Agent Orange does when you spray it on the plants. It dries up the root system of the plants and the plants die. When you put it in rubber, it stops the moisture molecules from breaking down, so the rubber is stabilized. Now, it doesn't know the difference between a moisture prohibitive in the food or a moisture prohibitive in the digestive tract.
Mike: So, you're dehydrating your dog.
Newman: Right. | | First, can you give a description of what is wrong with the pet food that is out there right now? Why are we seeing such an epidemic of diabetes in dogs and cats, for example? What's going on out there?
Newman: Well, it is really scary. What we've seen is the lowering of the quality of the food and the addition of many chemical byproducts to cheapen the foods. So, you provide a food to a pet that has no nutritional value. It is pretty, it has different colors in it, it has different shapes in it, and that is all to appeal to the owner. Give your dog gravy bits, doesn't that sound good? |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts | | In 1999, under new ownership, lams began updating its feeding guidelines for Eukanuba and lams dog foods. These guidelines suggested lowering the recommended amount of food to feed dogs each day. In their lawsuits, Nutro and Kal Kan, allege that this causes the dogs to lose weight in dangerous amounts. The suit claims that dogs fed according to lams' instructions won't receive sufficient nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | As a matter of fact, even though I think I have the best pet food on the market, I still recommend that people cook for their pets at home. You are not going to get as good food as you can get when you're preparing fresh meat and vegetables, because it's sitting in a bag. We use a barrier packaging, which I'm going to take a moment to explain.
Most foods are in a paper bag with a plastic lining to keep the oils from leaking through. We actually use a food-graded PVC plastic bag. It doesn't allow any oxygen through the bag, in or out. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  It is not only used in brake and hydraulic fluids, paints and coatings, floor wax, pet food, tobacco products, and laundry detergents, but also in cosmetics, toothpastes, shampoos, deodorants, lotions, and processed foods. You will even find it in baby wipes. Check the labels, you will be amazed. This is why pets are getting more cancer than ever before. pet food companies are using it in pet food. This is why children are getting cancer at a higher rate than ever before. In addition to causing cancer, propylene glycol also causes dermatitis, kidney damage, and liver abnormalities. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Lisa Newman has been a strong contributor to NewsTarget and authored the popular special report, pet food Ingredients Revealed! (a must-read report exposing the truth about pet food ingredients). We earn nothing from the sale of Azmira products and have no financial ties.
I've called Dr. Newman several times and found her and her staff to be incredibly knowledgeable, polite and highly motivated to help improve the health of pets everywhere. Please have patience with them, however. They have more calls than they can easily handle. You may spend time on hold or need to call back later. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Well, to the pet food slaughterhouse, of course. That's where many of these diseased cows end up going -- right into the pet food products for your Fido.
If you've ever wondered what's in those cans that you're feeding your pets, this is the answer -- dead cows that are unfit for human consumption. And some of them, it appears, have mad cow disease. Although there's no indication that this particular cow made it into the pet food supply, I wouldn't be surprised if other diseased cows frequently get into our pets' food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Read the report, pet food Ingredients Revealed to learn the truth about pet food ingredients. And make fresh meals from scratch whenever possible. Pets should not be raised to live on processed foods.
2) Fire your drug-pushing vet and switch to a holistic or naturopathic animal care expert, even if they don't have the same licensing credentials as the drug-pushing vet. State authorities, you see, are trying to de-license naturopathic vets, and there's a big effort now to push naturopathic vets out of the industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | That makes you wonder -- why didn't they put it into the pet food supply? See, I think they probably did, and I think they're just telling us whatever they want us to hear. I think pets are consuming this all across the country right now. Who knows how many cans of pet food that cow got into with all the mixing and matching? And remember, you can't kill mad cow disease by cooking the food. If the prions get into the pet food cans, it's going to infect the pets, regardless of how well the food has been cooked.
Many countries still ban U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The El Cajon pet food store raid
In 1990, FDA agents raided the pet food store of Sissy Harrington-McGill, a 57-year-old pet lover who was guilty of the "crime" of claiming that vitamins would help keep pets healthy. Without a search warrant, FDA agents ransacked her store, confiscating products and literature.
She was later tried and convicted of violating the Health Claims Law, a law that did not exist at the time of the raid and was never passed by the U.S. Congress. |
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