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Dog & cat obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other disease trends are starting to mirror human trends. Three guesses as to why? 1/
Dog & cat obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other disease trends are starting to mirror human trends. Three guesses as to why? 1/
As consumers wake up and sales of candy, cereals & other highly processed, insulin driving foods stagnate, Big Food is being forced to sell off brands that built them.
Where are they investing? PET FOOD, where they are replicating the same damage, this time on cats & dogs. 2/
Where are they investing? PET FOOD, where they are replicating the same damage, this time on cats & dogs. 2/
Cleverly, when their "regular" products make pets fat & sick, they move downstream for even higher profit by: 1. selling "specialized" pet food formulas for diabetes, obesity, kidney failure; and, 2. becoming the largest global provider veterinary services. 3/
Interestingly, when left to their own devices, dogs avoid carbohydrates. Many dog foods are 60% or more cheap, starchy carbs. Imagine if pet foods had to have an on pack carb-sugar equivalent label like @lowcarbgp's! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 4/
What do you nutritionally aware, low carb people feed your pets to keep them healthy? Obi and Cookie want to know!
