The point was not nutritional value to the vets. The point of the RD quote was BLATANT HEALTH RISKS - pets and their people who ended up with food poisoning because of their raw diets. I.e., salmonella, et al - the very thing in this recall. Poor strategy to bring up raw in a salmonella discussion.
Again, if humans have long since been cooking meats instead of raw - it also stands to reason that dogs have long been eating cooked along with them and their systems have likewise adjusted, gotten “soft”. Systems are different (not too much, compared to a horse), but we’re talking thousands of years of breeding and conditioning. Being the same species as the dawn of time doesn’t mean eating raw is still in them or us.
Hon, you really need to do a little more research before you start telling us about “what stands to reason”.
You are so wrong about all of your “ASSumptions” that I do not know where to begin.
I seriously doubt that it is even worth my time, since we aren’t even on the same page, scientifically.
You haven’t done any serious homework, and therefore have nothing to offer but your uneducated, misinformed opinion, and that is worth about what Harry Truman thought of being the vice-president.
If you want to insult me back, please know I won’t read it until tomorrow, if I get around to it.
Don’t you think it a bit silly to get into a snark squabble about what we feed our dogs? Aren’t there bigger problems to fight?
I just don’t agree that it stands to reason (but I don’t insist that you agree with me). I know a LOT of people who feed raw. I have not yet known a single person who has had a dog come down with salmonella from it, and I never had it in any of my dogs —and I fed raw chicken). And no one in my family ever got sick, but frankly Im just on the other side of Mr. Monk when it comes to my kitchen. Is it possible for a dog with a poor immune system to get sick? Yes. But look, dogs are garbage eaters. They will eat anything they find. Generally if it’s bad they puke it right up. Their systems are short and acidic. They eat a LOT of things I wouldn’t eat on a bet and don’t get sick. They will eat out of the cat box, and most will eat the feces of other animals and it doesn’t seem to harm them. I don’t think it would be very good for us. Our systems don’t handle that. We are designed differently.
But, don’t take offense. I don’t demand that you believe me, nor do I demand that you change what you’re doing. In fact I don’t think most people are equipped to feed raw, as it takes some planning and a little more work than most people are willing to do. And that’s fine. I don’t care a bit. I prefer that they feed a high quality dog food. I used to tell my puppy buyers not to give their dogs human food. I have softened on that and now just say don’t feed them excess of anything, and if you insist on giving them human food don’t give them the same sorts of things that you know you shouldn’t be eating (or if you do nothing but the tiniest taste very occasionally). Frankly, moderation in all things. Including FR arguments. We disagree on this, but so what? We agree on most things. :)