Synthetic Ingredients in Pet Food

The Problem with Synthetic Ingredients in Your Pets’ Food & Treats

Nature created vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and beneficial bacteria’s to work synergistically to support life. These essential nutrients are balanced and complementary in natural, whole, raw foods. The body combines nutrients to create additional nutrients that are necessary for life and may be lacking in individual foods. Modern science has not uncovered the process to mimic nature’s ability to synthesize crucially synergistic life-like activity in man-made nutrients.

Chemically synthesized nutrients might be contributing to, or outright causing, our pets’ health problems through toxicities, deficiencies, contamination's and lack of research and testing. In the past 5 years alone the pet food industry has recalled millions of dollars of pet foods contaminated with overdoses of synthetic Zinc Oxide, Vitamin D, Vitamin A and Melamine. (Settlements for these recalls have exceeded $25,000,000.00.) These overdoses are known to cause problems such as loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, hypercalcemia, liver and/or kidney failure, pancreatic changes, cervical spondylosis, spinal deterioration or improper growth, death, etc.

The National Research Council & AAFCO (the corporation’s responsible for determining nutritional standards for pet consumables) experts admit, “Knowledge of nutrient requirements & toxicities (of synthetic supplements) is incomplete and/or imprecise in many cases.” (AAFCO) and, “The current scientific literature, however, is not complete enough to support the estimation of maximum tolerable levels for any (synthetic) vitamin. In most cases, however, one can use the literature to estimate ranges of vitamin intake that can be presumed to be safe.” (NRC) They also admit that, “it may represent a virtually unexplored area when two or more synthetic mineral elements are present at high levels.” Most consumable pet products far exceed potentially unsafe levels of synthetics.

Your awareness and ability to purchase foods, treats and supplements with no synthetics ingredients can help keep your pet be healthier and happier. There are many whole foods and synthetic free options available for your pets’ foods, treats and chews.

Hero’s Pets can help you navigate safer whole food options for your pet needs. See our ad above for our address and contact information. Article written by Chelsea Kent.

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