People every day subject their beloved pets to monotonous, repetitive routines that they wouldn't allow for themselves. Yet, they unthinkingly pass these actions off as being beneficial for their pets.
Every day, people by the millions pour food from a package into their pet's bowl. Day in and day out, meal after meal, pets get the same pet supplies 02360 fare. This strange phenomenon is widely practiced by loving pet owners who believe they are doing the right thing.
Why? It is convenient. But also, the labels indicate that these foods are "completely balanced," "100% complete" or have passed numerous analytical and feeding testing standards. Furthermore, manufacturers, and even veterinarians, counsel pet owners about not feeding other foods, such as table scraps, because of the danger of unbalancing these modern processed nutritional marvels. The power of the message is so great that pet owners en masse do every day to their pets what they would never do to themselves or their children - force-feed the same processed food at every meal.
Think about it. It is difficult to comprehend the complexity of our world. It is not only largely unknown, it is unknowable in the "complete" sense. In order for nutritionists and manufacturers to produce a "100% complete and balanced" pet food, they must first know 100% about nutrition. However, nutrition is not a completed science. It is, in fact, an aggregate science, which is based upon other sciences, such as chemistry, physics, and biology. However, no scientist would claim that all of biology, chemistry, and physics are known. How can nutritionists claim to be able to understand nutrition, which is based on these sciences? This is why the claim of a "100% balanced and complete" diet is absurd. It is the reason a similar venture to feed babies a "100% complete" formula turned out to be a health disaster.
After enough disease and death had resulted in trying to reduce the human breast to an ornamental appendage, the government intervened and took control of the commercial hype. Now doctors, nurses and purveyors of baby formulas cannot say these products are complete or that they are equal to or superior to breast-feeding. They are doing a great job. (They should have been proactive in preventing the disaster from ever taking root and not just intervened after there were enough deaths.
Pet food regulators continue to ignore this warning. Instead of preventing pet food producers from claiming a processed food concoction is 100% complete, they in effect promote the death and disease-dealing specious claim by setting bogus standards that supposedly justify and authenticate the claim. To win consumers' trust, they legitimize poor science. All a manufacturer has to do is guarantee that their percentage of protein, fat and the like meets National Research Council standards. In the alternative, manufacturers can do feeding trials on caged laboratory animals for a few weeks, measure cursory blood parameters, and monitor growth and weight - as if survival after a few weeks on a food has anything to do with achieving optimal health and long life!