Grain-freeIf dogs & cats are not designed to eat grains, why is there so much of it in today’s pet foods?
Grains first appeared in pet foods about 70 years ago, when consumers wanted the convenience of pet food in a bag – and manufacturers wanted to reduce costs with inexpensive calories from grains.
Although grains such as rice or wheat provide low-cost calories, their high carbohydrate content contributes to obesity, and veterinarians increasingly citing grains and carbohydrates as primary causes of health problems common to dogs & cats.
The fact is, cats & dogs are simply not evolved to eat or metabolize the large quantities of cereal grains found in today’s conventional pet foods.
Still widely practiced, the traditional “grain-and-carbohydrate” approach to making pet food is likely here to stay. The lower costs, ready availability and easy storage of grains provide substantial cost reductions to pet food producers – a benefit that our companion dogs & cats unfortunately do not realize.
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