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What you Need to Know So That You Can Select Healthy Veterinarian Prescribed Dog Food

In this article:
  1. Practitioners of Conventional Modern Veterinary Medicine - how much do they really know about diet and nutrition;
  2. The basics of what you need to know in order to make viable, healthy decisions about your dogs, cats food;
  3. Examples of ingredients in Veterinarian prescribed food that pose serious health issues for your dog, cat;
  4. Examples of Veterinarian prescribed food that you should not feed your dog, cat.

1. 0 Conventional Modern Veterinary Medicine - Diet,
       Nutrition

  • Veterinarians are aggressively marketed to by large pet food companies with very deep pockets. These companies spend a considerable amount of money on:
    • In-depth and intense marketing campaigns;
    • Campaigns that are backed-up by skewed and biased data;
    • Campaigns that rely on the fact that:
      • Veterinarians are not taught about nutrition in any depth, and;
      • What they are taught in university is, for the most part based on material prepared by the big pet food manufacturing companies.
What You May not Know About your Veterinarian’s Knowledge of Pet Nutrition

First– Did you know that the standard 4-year long university course required to become a Veterinarian only includes about 50 hours of course time spent on pet nutrition? That is equivalent to about 1 week of study over the span of 4 years.

Second – During that week of study a large portion and often 100% of the material studied (research material, text books, study aids and even the course material) is sponsored by and often supplied to the university by the big-name pet food manufacturers such as Royal Canine, Hills and Purina? 

While at first glance this might seem ok - its not, and here is why...

The material prepared by these companies is very biased - not objective, not truthful and not factual. 
  • This means that the veterinary students - in their brief one week of nutritional study do not get to learn about real nutrition, they only get exposure to very limited information based on skewed data and misrepresented information.
  • In addition, students are often 
Thirdly–  While studying veterinary sciences at the university the pet food manufacturer offers pet food products at a greatly discounted price or for free to the student for his/her pet;

Fourthly - Upon graduation veterinarians are given financial incentive to endorse and stock the product of the company that supplied their university with ‘study’ material and food freebees.

Fifth - Read more here to understand why many conventional Veterinarians do not have a viable knowledge of nutrition.

So, having had:
  • All of about 1 week worth of learning about nutrition;
  • And the material studied was provided by a pet food company;
  • Just how much perspective (non-biased understanding) and comprehensive depth of knowledge does the average veterinarian have? 
  • Well, in most cases very little and what they do have may be very biased in favour of a specific company’s product (i.e. Hill’s Science Diet, Royal Canine, Purina, etc.).
  • Suffice it to say that the veterinarian student - now a practicing veterinarian really never had the opportunity to learn about real nutrition - not the students fault!
While there are most definitely some conventional practitioners of veterinarian medicine that have a proper knowledge of nutrition their are many more veterinarians that do not have a viable understanding of nutrition and diet.

This lack of knowledge is evidenced by the dog and cat food sold by many veterinarians.

The food purchased by pet owners from their Veterinarians is sold at an elevated price –


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