Switched to Vegan Dog Food!

in #vegan6 years ago

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After switching to a whole plant based diet for me, why was I still feeding my dogs the standard dog food from the store? Starting yesterday I switched my dogs to the new vegan dog food I show here! For those of us that want to see what motivated me to make the switch from the standard American diet to whole plant foods, we can read at https://steemit.com/dtube/@jerrybanfield/odangy6p.

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View V-Dog Vegan Kibble Dry Dog Foodon Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0086YESK0.

While many of us believe that dogs and similar animals "must eat meat" because "they are carnivores" this is no more true for them than for us because the digestive systems can handle either. In fact, the Bible tells us in Isaiah 11:6 that

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

Thousands of years ago our ancestors had a vision of a utopia where even "carnivores" like the wolf and the leopard and the lion could lie down together. Today we can see exactly how that works with vegan dog food where our carnivores can get all the nutrition needed without having to use animals for food.

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Note that the bag here mentions the fact that 50% of all water used in the USA is for live stock including for live stock that feed our pets. As we see on the back of the bag, this food is packed with protein for the dogs from a variety of plant sources which use a fraction of the resources needed to produce the same nutrition through an animal.

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The quantity of food to feed is significantly more than the dog food we were using before which helps our dogs to have more regular bowel movements which in turn promotes a healthier colon and digestive system. Conversely, infrequent bowel movements and a slow digestive system appear to lead to cancer as food rots inside the colon before it is removed.

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It looks like the standard dog food which is a big improvement over how I was previously feeding my dogs by cooking them oatmeal, blending in beans, and mixing up some peanut butter with it to make my do it yourself whole plant dog food.

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For my dogs, I feed two cups each twice a day which makes this cost about double what the "standard" dog food does.

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I use plastic containers from Publix to eliminate the need for dog bowls.

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My dogs eat this food just the same as any other of course!

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I tried some and it tasted fine!

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Empty dog bowls in just a minute as with whatever I feed them! Meanwhile, the amount of resources needed and the impact on the planet from making this dog food is a fraction of what it is to make the other dog foods. I feel good about doing my part to help make a world where we all have enough and thank you for reading about this with me!

Love,
Jerry Banfield

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Lol.. dont go against nature.

We drive cars, use smartphones, and eat iodized salt and bread fortified with folate and thiamine. If we humans never went against nature, we'd be living in caves.

When kibble grows in the wild, it's made of ground up random animal parts and filler. It must always be that way. 😜

Vegan dogs...... never even thought about that.

I posted your post in r/vegan

It reached the second page of the most upvoted post of the last 24h.

If you post something even more catchy about veganism make sure to post it on r/vegan it could hit the front page of r/vegan and translate in many thousands of views.

Take care Jerry!

https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/7nerb3/switched_to_vegan_dog_food/?st=jbws4quk&sh=06223ac5

Oh nice. Thank you for doing this. There's plenty of evidence around to suggest most dogs do fine on a vegan diet (unlike cats). I hope your dog will thrive also.

And Happy New Year to you Jerry. I hope your 2018 is great.

CraZy world 😥 Pets go vegan...😅

Happy New Year! 🌟☃️

Taurine? Isn't that (along with Caffeine) the active ingredient in Red Bull and similar energy drinks?

@jerrybanfield Happy New Year. Best wishes to you always :D

happy new year

Thank you!

Dude I appreciate all the effort and research but isn't it a bit unfair, shouldn't dogs be fed what is their natural diet?

It's a fact that most vegans and many vegetarians end up with leaky gut. I feel for this dog because the main fat he's getting is rancid canola - not good.

That's a fact? If that's true, I would love to see some evidence of it.

That's a fair enough question, but here is a follow up. Do you really think the bits of dry kibble that many dogs get is natural? My dogs wear sweaters and sleep in human beds. That's not really natural, either. I think we should trust that responsible and compassionate people like Jerry would never do anything which was not in the better interest of their companion animals.

I like the dog on the bag with the "plant" ears! cute!

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