BARF is nutritionally sound because any given species of animal requires foods that are whole and raw, not cooked or processed by heat. Animals require food that is biologically available and appropriate to them i.e. can be fully digested to provide proper nutrition.

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Why BARF is better:

•   Raw, whole foods are more biologically appropriate   •

•   Processed pet foods often contain unsuitable ingredients of dubious quality & origin, are heavily cooked and chemically altered   •

•   High pressures and temperatures in their cooking process damages nutrients and renders them unavailable for assimilation and digestion. It also creates foreign substances that harm pets (allergies and ill health)   •

•   Nutritional adequacy is achieved over a series of meals, not necessarily in each meal   •

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Common myths challenged:

•   No one knows the exact nutritional needs of animals   •

•    Each animal has different individual nutritional requirements   •

•   “Complete and balanced” in every meal is unnecessary; even misleading   •

•   Evolution shows that dogs and cats actually thrive with natural variation in diet   •

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Conclusion:

Processed pet foods are nutritionally unsound and lack evolutionary grounding.

 

A properly built BARF Diet like Dr B’s BARF recipes is:

•   Nutritionally Sound   •

•   Nutritionally Adequate   •

•   Backed by Evolutionary Principles   • 

 

BARF involves feeding a wide range of food items, which are whole and raw. Such foods contain organic nutrients, are in biologically available forms and are very difficult to unbalance. It is a diet that has been shaped by evolutionary forces that operated over the millennia that it took our pets to evolve.

 

On the other hand, processed pet foods contain nutrients that have been made unavailable/indigestible by cooking. They also contain highly rendered fat (mutagenic and carcinogenic), cooked starch (exacerbates cancer and diabetes) and added artificial sources of minerals (which are assimilated differently by pets’ bodies and can cause bone problems). Pet animals eating them have been demonstrated rising levels of degenerative diseases at increasingly earlier stages of life! Yet, pet food companies insist on telling us that these products are ‘Complete and Balanced’.

 

Bottom line is that processed pet foods are nutritionally unsound and nutritionally inadequate and have no evolutionary basis. A BARF diet will definitely be closer to being ‘Complete and Balanced’ in a biological sense. A properly constructed BARF feeding program like Dr B’s BARF

patties WILL BE by definition - nutritionally sound and nutritionally adequate.