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Many would take your soap box more to heart if your info was correct... you have bits and pieces that are but I see glaring inaccuracies that anyone with basic animal nutrition knowledge knowsOriginally Posted by Cat_crazy
When your vet says something like this it's because they don't know what the heck they are talking about. Vets don't get trained in the area of nutrition very well. What little training they do get is mostly from representatives from companies such as Iam's and Purina.
I will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, take a vet seriously who tells me anything of the sort like that.
Yeah, humans can't eat raw meat and can't handle things like E. Coli and bacteria because they weren't designed to eat it raw (and some might argue whether we were designed to eat meat at all). Cats' stomach acids are very strong, much stronger than humans and can easily kill bacteria and such and it is perfectly safe for them to eat raw. Anyone who argues otherwise doesn't know what THEY are talking about either. Everyone is so worried about getting the right balance etc. when they don't need to be so obsessed and paranoid over it! So many pets today have so many health problems vets weren't seeing before commercial junk came about. I hate commercial food. Even the so called "better" kibbles and canned foods. They aren't better because they are still processed, you still can't be 100% sure what is in them and they are not the diet a cat or dog should be eating. Period. I wish commercial pet food would go away and never come back. It's for human convenience and because people have been so brain-washed by the advertising that anything else is not nutritionally complete.
Bottom line is that raw is best, always will be best, is relatively simple to feed and is often cheaper then feeding the "better" commercial foods.
*steps off of soap box*