Top five harmfuldog food ingredients.

[Maverick]

What are the top five most harmful ingredients?

[LoveNewfies]

Ethoxyquin
BHA
BHT
Propylene Glycol
Artificial Colors

From their I will add carbohydrates and any soy products.

[RawFedDogs]

I agree.

[rannmiller]

I'd rank corn right up there with artificial colors too.

[zomo]

Powdered Cellulose (saw dust), Peanut Hulls , i just saw the most disgusting recipe for a food that I ever saw except for that of OL Roy. What made this one twice as disgusting is that it was diagnosed by a vet. Ingredients as follows : Ground whole Grain Corn, powdered cellulose 15% (source of fiber) Chicken by Product meal, Soybean Meal, Peanut Hulls 11% (source of fiber) Chicken Liver Flavour, Soybean Mill Run, Dried Egg Product (aka egg shells) Corn Gluten Meal, Soybean Oil Preserved by BHT,BHA and ethoxyquin.

[rannmiller]

Was that a SD prescription food?

[zomo]

Was that a SD prescription food?

Hills

[rannmiller]

Yep, sounds about right. That's what my poor 11 year old lab/shepherd was on for 8 years before we finally realized it's absolute crap and that's probably why the poor dog was falling apart. She's better now that she's on raw though!

It's amazing how "modern medicine" really messes things up sometimes.

[zomo]

Yep, sounds about right. That's what my poor 11 year old lab/shepherd was on for 8 years before we finally realized it's absolute crap and that's probably why the poor dog was falling apart. She's better now that she's on raw though!

It's amazing how "modern medicine" really messes things up sometimes.

Just my opinion but I think it is highly unethical for vets to be able to sell food in their practices. Obviously they are not thinking of the welfare of the animal when they prescribe this stuff. There is a conflict of interest when the dog will be coming back with other ailments because his food is of the lowest quality. And guess who is making money on medicines it will take to make him feel better. Why do they sell a food that has known carcinogens?

[rannmiller]

I agree! Couldn't have said it better myself! I know a guy who has an obese cat with diabetes on Hills Prescription food because his God awful vets insist it's for the best. Maybe if he a) didn't feed the cat crap to begin with and b) tried feeding it like a cat (meat based diet) the poor thing wouldn't be so fat and miserable. This man LOVES his cats and I feel like the vets are killing them slowly just to drain him of his money, and he does it because they tell him it's for the best? That's just sick and wrong IMO