Why Raw?
“Regardless of how good the ingredients were that went in in the beginning, by the time he gets down that processing line and it’s been cooked and extruded at over 400°, there is not only a lot of nutrition that’s lost but there’s actually a lot of things that are produced chemically within that food that legitimately causes cancer."
- Dr. Gary Richter on dry food, during an interview for 'The Truth About Pet Cancer'
"For optimal health to occur, animals must consume the foods that they were designed to eat."
- Dr. Karen Becker discusses a Raw Food Diet
Part 1 discusses the domestication of animals and species appropriate diets
Part 2 discusses the optimal nutrition for a pet carnivore.
"Animals need unadulterated fresh, whole foods that are moisture-dense. Animals don't need grains, fillers, artificial preservatives, colors, additives, chemicals, by-products or processed foods."
"If you were to give your child an all-in-one, nutritionally, scientifically, doctor approved diet which is dry and contains nothing natural what so ever and nothing fresh... you'd be put in prison! but that is what we're advised to feed our animals."
-Geoff Johnson, VetMB MA MRCVS VetMFHom RSHom PCH trained in veterinary medicine at Cambridge University
"A lot of people think grain-free means no sugar; that couldn't be any further from the truth"
-The Unknown Sugar in Pet Food, Rodney Habib
"90% decrease in the risk of cancer by just adding some green leafy vegetables to a bowl of processed food..."
- Why Don't Dogs Live Forever? Rodney Habib