Phyrie wrote:
"Char" wrote in message
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There is lots of evidence that shows cancer for instance is way higher
in pets than it ever was.

My point is, if you don't see a vet, you would never know your dog had
cancer. You only know he got sick and died. So, sure there is "way higher"
incidents of cancer in pets. Because we care enough to look.

"Dogs may actually be consuming carcinogens in their dog food. Some of
the chemicals used to preserve pet foods have been revealed to be cancer
causing agents. Sadly, Mouth cancer is actually the fourth leading cause
of cancer deaths in dogs."
http://dogs.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Cancer_in_Dogs

Those preservatives are only in processed dog foods.

"Forty years ago the average Golden Retriever lived to be fifteen or
sixteen, while house cats routinely lived into their twenties. Today the
Golden Retriever’s life expectancy is seven years. (Bell, Kristen Lee,
Holistic
Aromatherapy for Animals, 2002, p. VIII)
Why has our pet's health and longevity declined over the last 40-50
years? Pet food manufacturers often use poor quality ingredients that
are not fit for human consumption, such as 4D meat (dying, dead,
diseased, disabled), by-products (feet, heads, beaks, hides, hooves) and
moldy or contaminated grains. The food may then be preserved with BHA,
BHT or ethoxyquine, which can cause cancer. (For more information, see
"What's Really in Pet Food" by the Animal Protection Institute.)"
http://www.optimumchoices.com/pet_food.htm

It is a fact that our dogs get way too many vaccines now. This didn't
happen years ago.

"One of the more no-holds-barred statements about vaccines is Dr.
Richard Pitcairn's warning: "Giving a vaccine to an animal with cancer
is like pouring gasoline on a fire." He also advises not vaccinating
pets who have breast tumors or any other growths or tumors. His overall
recommendations regarding vaccines are these: Try to get your
veterinarian to give single or simple vaccines rather than complex
vaccines. Young animals can tolerate a reduced vaccination schedule,
but vaccinating is not advised before sixteen weeks of age. Annual
boosters should be avoided even though they have been popular. Pitcairn
goes so far as to say avoid "any further vaccinations after the initial
series as they are not necessary." He adds that the latest official
medical opinion is that annual boosters are neither required nor
effective, although not all veterinarians will agree with or even know
this fact.
Perhaps the most shocking and informative book about the pet food
industry is Ann Martin's "Food Pet's Die For", published in 1997. As
Dr. Michael W. Fox, vice president of the Humane Society of the United
States, says, "Ann Martin is to the pet food industry what Rachel Caron
was to the petrochemical-pesticide industry." Martin spent seven years
investigating the commercial pet food industry and what she uncovered
isn't pretty. There are several reasons you really do not want to feed
your dog or cat commercial foods. Perhaps the most compelling moral
reason is that there are rendered, euthanized pets in much of this food.
These pets have been mixed with other materials, including some
condemned for human consumption: "rotten meat from supermarket shelves,
restaurant grease..'4-D' (dead, diseased, dying and disabled) animals
and roadkill."

The Minister of Agriculture of Quebec told Martin that dead animals are
often cooked with viscera, bones, fat and fur. In both the United
States and Quebec, this rendering of pets is not illegal. Martin points
to an article originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle in
which an employee and ex-employee of a rendering plant admitted that
their company rendered approximately 250,000 to 500,000 pounds of
animals, scraps and more, including "somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000
pounds of dogs and cats a day."
http://www.preciouspets.org/cancer.htm

Yummy!