03/09/2024
Yep... The pet food industry is funding veterinary school programs ! How do you want vets to know anything else about nutrition ? Just like the pharmaceutical industry is funding medical school programs...
They don't love you, or you pets.. Profit is the only aim.
RANT TIME - WHY DO VETS RECOMMEND S**T FOOD?!
Hey guys, this is just your weekly knowledge topper-upper from Nestlé, the most hated and boycotted food company on earth!!
Sharing this here now as I just put the wraps on a few consults today and something two separate folk said to me are now running around my mind. I feel if I don't post about it I'll get a big boil or something.
The first person said her relationship with her local vet who is very, very, very anti-fresh food for pets, has dissolved to the point she can't use them anymore. As she's rural it means a long drive to a vet that will humour her out there ideas.
But it was the consult after that made me mad. A couple were put off feeding their large dog real food by Ark Vets in Dublin "they heard of a dog fed just beef mince for ages that got ill".
Yeah! No s**t Ark Vets!! Don't do that for too long!!!
I mean, as if I need to highlight, can you imagine your doctor saying they don't recommend fresh food anymore as they heard a kid someplace got ill after being fed just pizza, or just broccoli, or worse, just Nestlé food products?!
How are they this confused on this simple point?!
Clearly, the parasitical cash-infiltration by these candy companies into our veterinary departments where these kids might get one or two lectures on canine nutrition (delivered by them, for the most part, as FOI requests clearly show us) over their five years, is money well spent.
They then follow this up with a deluge of bad info into vet clinics via reps and social media via their hateful whitecoat vets, paid to disseminate nonsense and muddy the waters. A tide of crap info that our young are proving unable to swim against.
It's interesting to note the Nestlé boycott began after the world came to the conclusion their "complete" food for kids wasn't actually complete at all, that it couldn't be, that real food is far too complex to replicate in a lab.
[...as if I have to say for the new fragile amongst us, it's great we have it for folk that can't ...yada yada yada...]
..But the reason they're the MOST HATED junk food company on earth is that after this became the accepted scientific theory (not hypothesis, it moves to theory with evidence...you know, the stuff they never show you to support kibble feeding....), Nestlé continued to market their product as a breast milk replacement in countries that might not have the same levels of regulation in place.
It was the fact they KNOWINGLY did that, DO that, repeatedly, still today, assumedly jeopardising the health of kids eating their s**te ultra-processed food product (as we know it's NOT as good as the real thing), that they are the most hated food company on earth.
That's what this company will do to make money off the back of human baby health.
Now, do you seriously think this company loves dogs more?!
Unbelievably, the evidenced-based veterinary industry does...and again, based on ZERO factual evidence whatsoever.
Check out that poster below (which always slates the opposition as they have no talking points on the health benefits of their junk food products):
SAFETY CONCERNS - more than 140 people have been poisoned by dry pet food, half them toddlers under 2 years of age. From raw dog food? 3 or 4, maybe, and some "suspected"...by the industry. In fact, enormous retrospective safety analysis published in top journals show feeding raw seems to be an incredibly safe thing to do! No such analysis exists for dry.
HEALTH RISK - tens of thousands of pets have been killed by kibble over multiple instances. From complete raw? Less than 10.
SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS - not a single study shows high carb kibble is beneficial to a meat eater for anything (bar weight gain!). In fact, of all the head-to-heads in existence (bar one single study...produced byyyyy...you guessed it, Nestlé....!!!) every single one of them favours real food / raw. Every one of them.
NUTRITIONAL COMPLETENESS - an analysis of "complete" UK kibble found 2/3 failed to meet THE MINIMUM nutritional standards set out by the industry itself (including prescription kibble). 94% of the cans. And they STILL have the audacity to go on about their crap being perfect!!!
They are simply using the same tricks they learned in the human realm and are deploying them in the even less regulated pet food sector. Using the insance profits generated by selling Weetabix for €10/kg, they pay off the veterinary departments so these kids come out spewing Ronald Mc Donald nonsense like Ark Vets are doing, they pay off (if not outright own) the journals where they print their bulls**t science, they pay the regulators, they pay AAFCO, they pay FEDIAF, they pay WSAVA. They cash-infiltrate all sectors of the cash-hungry vet sector.
Our young vets haven't a hope.
We KNOW our young vets love animals, God knows. It's a tough gig to get into and then they're thrown into practice, into business, expected to be masters of all aspects of all animals. After 12hrs of emotionally taxing work (UK vets average 57hrs a week guys - imagine dealing with sick pets and stressed pet owners all day, honestly I can only do 3-4 consults max), how can we expect them to research the 100's of drugs and products they use each day as soon as they get home?!
This workload and stress is clearly not working out for our vets and they know it. Add to this the fact the corporates are not paying them appropriately and the dropout rate of young vets is s at an all-time high.
So, while you should stand your ground on topics of nutrition, as you will surely know more than the average vet in clinic today, try save your anger for the ultra-processed food companies - Nestlé, Mars Inc, Colgate-Palmolive - the new to***co companies. They will say and do literally anything to get you, your vet and your pet hooked and, with more money than God, they are black belts in bulls**t.
In the meantime, Ark Vets, and any other vet clinics out there still reading this, I offer you and all your vets a full day of my time, on the house. No strings. We can do lectures on canine nutrition, including the various diets we use for all the top illnesses. I will give you all the science you need. I will answer all of your questions. I will do it on Sunday if you need it. Young vets that are afraid of superior rebuke, get a gang of like minded souls together and I will do it on the QT and not mention it again.
For the love of dogs, please come to the table and at least DEBATE. Be open and bloody adult enough to at least hear our side of the story, because with studies showing feeding pets real food significantly reduces their chance of skin, ear and gut conditions, your s**t nutritional advice IS harming pets.
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