According to Dr. Becker the big pet food producers and many of the conventional vets are exerting lots of energy in a misguided attempt to convince pet parents that processed therapeutic or prescription kibble diets are "food as medicine" and the wave of the future. I can't tell you how many times customers have called me or walked into one of our anemic-looking cats or dogs stores with tales of woe.
"But I feed my precious a good quality food, one of those vet diets."
No wonder...
As you probably know familiar well-marketed diets, are supposedly formulated to address specific conditions in dogs and cats, like obesity, kidney disease, digestive issues, food allergies and more.
Yeah right...Here's what the good doctor Becker says: "In my experience and that of other integrative veterinarians highly processed diets made with feed-grade ingredients are the root cause of many of the diseases pets acquire today."
Makes sense, would feed your kid a diet of 100% processed food?
Thought so.
According to Dr. Becker, "It's really a disgrace that when dogs and cats become sick with degenerative diseases after years of eating processed, biologically inappropriate food, their owners are then encouraged to buy a more expensive version of a similar food and consider it "medicine."