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The Raw Dog Food Truth
Pets with allergies, skin issues gut issues, and behavior issues can live better lives by eating a species-appropriate diet. Find out the dangers of kibble and cooked foods. Your Pet's Health Is Our Business "Friends Don't Let Friends Feed Kibble"
The Raw Dog Food Truth
Are We Being Tricked Into Feeding Our Dogs Petroleum?
Dr. Judy Jasek and DeDe Moffett expose the shocking truth about pet food regulations and the synthetic ingredients hiding in commercial dog foods. We discuss how new FDA labeling laws are attempting to undermine raw feeding by requiring misleading language on packaging.
• Summer heat poses serious risks to dogs – protect paws from hot pavement and provide adequate water
• Synthetic vitamins in commercial pet foods are derived from petroleum products, coal tar, and other industrial waste
• AAFCO standards are minimal and only require that a dog can "survive" on a diet for six months
• New labeling laws forcing raw dog food companies to label products as "mixers" or "toppers" despite being complete diets
• Dogs need meat, bones, organs and fat for optimal health, not processed food with synthetic additives
• Taking responsibility for your pet's health means educating yourself rather than depending solely on veterinary advice
• Observe your dog's health and trust what you see over government regulations or industry propaganda
Find out how you can start your dog on the road to health and longevity. Go to rawdogfoodandcompany.com, where friends don't let friends feed kibble and where your pet's health is our business.
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Speaker 2:Well, hello Raw Feeders. I'm Deedee Mersham-Moffitt, ceo of Raw Dog Food Company, where your pet's health is our business and we're friends, like my friend, dr Judy Jasik she's one of my friends Feed Kibble. Good morning Dr Jasik. How are you Good?
Speaker 1:morning. Doing well, doing well. I need to look for a good groomer. You can tell I'm getting a little long here.
Speaker 2:You know I do that a lot. I cut my just the front part, my bangs, and then I'm going in and they're like are you cutting on your hair?
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I am. Isn't it amazing how they can tell like right away, Like how do you?
Speaker 2:know that, because it's all janky, I don't know they're like. I know I didn't make that cut last time you were in here, you know. So how is it out there in the new part of Tennessee? You still loving it, are you glad you made the move?
Speaker 1:we're really, we're really liking it here. It's a nice town, um. We're outside of Sparta, which is about 5,000 people, so it's a nice little town, um, but we're close enough to cookville so we got like services. You know, my I had some issues with my car and I, you know, had a car dealer 20 minutes away.
Speaker 1:So you know, it's just nice to be a little closer to civilization. So, um, that's nice. It's a beautiful area. We still haven't gotten out to do any hiking and stuff like that yet, but we will definitely. It's been pretty warm here, but that's going to be changed. Not as warm as where you are, but that is for sure, warm and humid, but it's going to be kind of tapering back. I think we're going to be in the seventies next week, so Nice, nice.
Speaker 2:Yes, we were just in we were back in Colorado for three weeks and it was awesome. It was really awesome. We were at the warehouse with our team and just the weather was beautiful. We're still in Arizona. We'll be here for a little bit longer, but yeah, we'll be here for a little bit longer, but yeah, nobody should be here during this time. You know, yesterday was one 13 and you just really have to plan and and and. People, do you know, plan differently for their dogs, right You're, you're walking very early before the sun's hitting that pavement, and then you, you really do. The other night I told Laz I was like look, we're just not going for a long walk because it was. It was a hundred degrees still at 10 o'clock.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask you if it cools off at night. So it doesn't cool off that much at night.
Speaker 2:It's hard, you know when it's, when it's that, when it's that hot, I think next week we're we're, you know, below 100. Now I don't know if that's going to jettison back up again. I remember last year, the end of september. The end of september was 118. Um, now they say that was just crazy hot, you know. But you know, judy, here's what you have to really think about. Is that concrete? Yeah, okay, in the cities, concrete and certainly homes that are stucco or brick or you know anything other than wood, right is going to hold heat. Yeah, it's a heat sink? Yeah, yeah, you know, we can talk about climate control all you want, but here's the thing these structures, these man-made structures, hold heat guys, the pavement and the concrete.
Speaker 1:I've actually heard that. I remember watching some podcasts from a guy in Tucson. This was a number of years ago but he said that just planting vegetation in an area can lower, like he promoted, like in his community. So he he was especially was water catchment. So like Tucson, you know, which isn't all that far from where you are, they'll get a lot of rain Right. So he had these like catchment systems so when it did rain you could catch the water. And he had these ways of gardening and he would reuse his gray water. So like when he washed clothes, the water would drain into his garden and stuff like that. And so you could grow more, because you can't grow much when it's 118 degrees, but because he had these watering systems he could grow more. And he said, like if he got people like on a street to grow more vegetation, he could lower the temperature 10 degrees just by having more vegetation there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it does make makes a huge difference. So if you're just an area where there's a lot of buildings and concrete and all that, that makes a huge. Well, it's like how you do like I mean solar passive heating. You know people have, you know, like a brick wall. If you want to like warm your home, like you're in Colorado and it's winter time but you got all the sun, you want the sun coming in hitting like a brick wall or concrete wall or cinder block or something, or water barrels, then that holds the heat. So, yeah, totally, it's all you know it just doesn't cool off.
Speaker 2:I think that people forget that dogs can have heat stroke, and you have to remember that there, yes, the fur is a protective mechanism, but they get so hot, right. So let's really watch how far we walk the dogs. Are we carrying water? You know, I make sure that I carry water when we go into the greenbelt area. So on the grass right, not on the pavement, but still dogs. I think we'll just go and go and go until they can't go anymore, right, and so I would be very cautious about how far we're going with our dogs. Make sure you're carrying water. If it's super hot, make sure you got those booties for them. But you know the other thing too Lassie likes to carry a toy when she walks. Now, we've made her stop doing that, because they have to be able to breathe and cool down right In their mouth area. Right, they got to cool down right in their mouth area. Right, they got to cool down so they don't sweat right, right, right.
Speaker 2:So let's be cognizant of that. I mean, she loves it, but I'm like no, drop your toy. You know you have to make her because she, she, she says all right, we're going, let me get my toy box. Which one am I carrying?
Speaker 1:Maybe you need to get a toy that you can fill with water and freeze it, so it should be like carrying an ice cube.
Speaker 2:Right, that'd be great. That'd be great. So remember these things as we're going out, because dogs aren't people and we always try to make that. You know, it's always beyond me. People walk outside with their shoes and they never test the pavement for the dogs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, time, try walking out the foot on it, even on a sidewalk, it's hard yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, hey, listen, you just did a sub stack on, would you say. The sub stack was on how to make your own dog food and how maybe difficult that could be. Is that what you think that that you would title this, this sub stack that you did?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it kind of along the lines of so my, so my. The title was feeding your pet naturally and the subtitle was recipes or common sense. Because I get the question a lot like well, can you just give me a recipe to feed my dog? Because what I think, what you know people think about. Okay, they realize I don't want to feed this commercial food, get a kibble food and understand this is not good. So what do I do? Well, how do I cook for my family? So you know we cook, you know we have, you know, hamburgers on a bun or we have, you know, chicken and rice or you know. So maybe that stuff I'll just feed that to my dog.
Speaker 1:But they're not the same. You know we're more omnivorous and I mean there's a wide variety of different diets for humans which we won't go into that topic. It's very individual but everybody does well on. But dogs are carnivores. They need to eat a meat-based diet and to balance the diet you have to have a mix of organs, not just a bunch of liver, but liver, heart, kidney, lungs, spleen, and so when people ask for like a recipe, they're expecting something like we take some hamburger and then you take some rice and then you add in a bunch of veggies and puree them up and then you maybe put a multivitamin in it. And that's what people are quick Cause, that's what nutritionists do.
Speaker 1:I mean there's like board certified nutritionists, veterinary nutritionists. These are the types of diets companies like that balance it. That's the. They're selling these like supplements. You know they they do a base diet and then you put a bunch of supplements in and you know, as we've talked about many times, that's not what we believe is the healthiest diet for a dog. It's meat, bone and organ and but the way you balance the diet is by this organ mix. So you're going to go to your grocery store and buy spleen Like probably be pretty hard to find. I get you. I should get a funny look at the meat counter. I said can I spleen today? Like well, right here, right here, my belly? I do, but not in the meat case.
Speaker 2:Right, you know you're talking about synthetic vitamins. And Paulina Frederick, you know our friend Paulina, who she's amazing, or Pauline, I should say. I call her Paulina Pauline and she sent this in because she really would like for us to do a little deeper dive into synthetics. But here's what she found. She found that synthetic vitamins for dog food. You know they're they're they're manufactured in laboratories using chemical processes. Now, that's not a shocker to us, but here's just some of the things that are in synthetic vitamins. So vitamin A can be synthesized from. Vitamin A can be synthesized from petroleum products Okay, does it sound good? Vitamin B1, often made from coal, tar derivatives, hydrochloric acid and ammonia, and B12 can produce by reacting cobalt men's, cobalt men's with cyanide. I mean there's like, okay, so all of these sound just crazy.
Speaker 2:A vitamin E, right, is a derivative from petroleum byproducts petroleum byproducts. So this is what we're talking about when we're talking about synthetic vitamins. And you know why they put that in there and this is something that just baffles my mind is because they wanted to meet the nutritional standards set by the regulatory bodies called the AAFCO, now Dr Jasek. So this is what's very confusing to me. I get you know the basics. The basic is it's dead food, it's crap, so we need to add something back in there to make the dog healthy. Now, all of that stuff I just read off doesn't sound very healthy to me. Okay, but if, if the body of AAFCO is not a regulatory body, they don't come in, they don't test, they don't do jack crap. Why is it so important to meet those?
Speaker 1:standards. I know All they do is make recommendations that's like based on nothing, nothing. And I think, I think the standards that they have set forth are something like a dog needs to survive. Survive for something like six months on a diet and it can meet APCO standards. That's how loose it is. Survive, that doesn't mean thrive. That means they're still breathing and they have a pulse. It doesn't mean that they're healthy. Survive. So I mean they could survive eating shoe leather for, you know, six months or something you know. So there is no, I mean they're not. They're not putting out good nutritional recommendations. Efco standards really mean nothing.
Speaker 1:So anyway, I tell people that when they're doing individual nutrients, it's just a bunch of chemicals and we need to be giving these nutrients with through, through whole foods. So people hear a lot about vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin E those are fat soluble vitamins. Let's just eat a little extra fat, get some healthy saturated animal fats, some tallow or lard, add some of that and you want omega-3s. Feed some fish. You know we need to be doing it whole food, not just this breakdown of all these chemicals, these individual nutrients, because it's just, it's a false sense of security, and you know. And then we wonder. I mean so we're feeding petroleum byproducts and do we wonder why our pets are getting sicker Like it's pretty much a no brainer to me that that's going to make that sick.
Speaker 2:Well, as I've always said, Dr Jasek, I understand that we must have a voice in the world to make change. However, I will say, in the raw dog food industry, the complaints or the fears or the worry has not helped. And right now, labeling laws. Labeling laws are going to confuse the heck out of pet parents. So, right now, labeling laws. If anybody's in the pet food industry, every state that that you ship food to that your food goes, it has to adhere to labeling their labeling laws. And here's the way that the labeling laws are coming out right now. Basically, it's going to have to say that raw dog food is a mixer. Raw dog food is for supplemental and intermittent feeding. It's always said that. But it's also going to say, maybe used as a topper or a mix and you need to supplement. Right? This is this is going to be confusing and is this a?
Speaker 1:requirement, like you're gonna have to put this yes, is that a federal thing or is every state?
Speaker 2:every state is different, every state is different and you have to pay, okay, and there may be companies out there that get away with not paying. Eventually you're gonna have to pay the piper, but it is not. Um, there's so many things that go on on the back end. But again, to me, I still look at it. As you know, back in the day, 25 years ago, it was just so much easier, it was just what it is. And you didn't have, you know, these companies, these private equity companies, jumping in the game like Farmer's Dog, like Ollie, like Tango and whatever. You know.
Speaker 2:All these companies, right, and I just see them still trying to get in and confuse consumers and call it an incomplete diet. Right, that is their goal. And so Brian was like what, what, what? You know, what do we say to customers? And I said, tell them the truth. The truth is that this is required by the FDA. And, yeah, we, we pretty much feel like it's just to jack with um, jack with what you know, the the narrative, because, like you said, do you want to feed your dog a petroleum-based, a synthetic-based, a chemical-based, a, a a diet that is formulated by nobody? That's in the pet nutrition industry? It's, it's. It's not as if you've got somebody that that is sitting at a table that has your pet's health in mind. It's.
Speaker 1:We have our bottom line really the, the kibble diets it's, but I think it's all industry waste. I think they take the waste from a whole bunch of different industries and they grind it all up like these petroleum byproducts. Why does that end up as a quote-unquote vitamin? Well, because they got these byproducts. What do they do with it? Well, they can sell them to the pet food industry. We'll just give them to the pets. So industry waste or waste from?
Speaker 1:I watch, I listen to a book, um, and the author was talking about corn and how corn is like. Most corn grown is not like eaten, as corn it's goes into the industry, is processed into high fructose corn syrup and all these things. But there's a number of vitamins that are actually made from corn. Things like xanthan gum are made from corn. So people pick on and my dog can't eat beef. What about the xanthan gum and the petroleum byproducts? You think those might be making your dogs itch? They don't think about that. But it's all just nothing but a bunch of waste products. Why do you think it has to be ground up, made to look so uniform? Because people would be horrified if they knew where that stuff actually came from. And they grind it up in these nice little kibbles and they spray a multivitamin on it so they can say it's afro approved.
Speaker 2:You know, it's just garbage yeah, so I mean that that is going to be it not coming. It's here. Labels are going to have to change and um so that's so, that's a law.
Speaker 1:Now you have to say like mixer and topper and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:So you're going to start seeing that on labels and we're going through that process right now. It's just, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:And if you don't put that on there, then they would just shut you down. Yeah.
Speaker 2:They. So, basically, the way that works is you know, you're not supposed to be able to sell something if it doesn't have the right label. So you think about every product that is out there. Every product, not just in the dog food industry, but every product that's on the market has to adhere to some sort of labeling, laws and regulation. And the question is, who's making those and what's the intent? Yeah, right, and you? You can look at it a couple of different ways. I don't know any other industry, really, but this one, but to me this is just bullshit, and I'm just going to say it. It's ridiculous, right, because what is the intent? You know, they've always done supplemental and intermittent feeding, right? So people think, well, I need to mix it with what Kibble? Right?
Speaker 2:So the kibble industry is like all right, we, you know, we can't have an animal eating a true species appropriate diet, a diet that is appropriate for their bodies, a diet, that where they can actually get the vitamins and minerals from the food. And then what do we do, dr Jasek? Well, we've got to make the land just horrible, right, just horrible, right. So we can justify putting in the synthetics, because we can say well, the land is void of all of these you know, vitamins and minerals that that cow that's walking around out there does not have any zinc in his body. And Brian and I just did a podcast on on zinc right, and he said if I hear one more time that I need to add zinc to the diet, I'm just going to throw up and he's like feeding the dog real bone, right, real bone, real vitamins and minerals in the food. You should be fine and the dog will be fine, but it's these narratives that come up.
Speaker 1:And the other thing about that is like you take like a cow. The reason eating meat can is so different than eating like vegetables? Because it's true, if our soils are depleted of minerals then the plants are not going to absorb those minerals, but inside the cow they got this big fermentation that the room and where there's all this bacteria, in those bacteria make a lot of the nutrients that then ends up in the meat. So even if they're not getting optimal nutrition from the grass or whatever they're eating Now, if they're on a feedlot eating real crap like that's always bad and I'm talking about they're out on the pasture and maybe the soil isn't as healthy as it could be the bacteria in their rumen are still manufacturing those nutrients. So that meat is still going to have a whole lot of natural ingredients. If you feed all the parts that and that's where I think you can't just feed the muscle you got to feed the organs and the brain and the eyes and all the gross stuff too.
Speaker 1:Um, if you're feeding all the parts, then you're going to get all those different nutrients well, that's why we have to get the cows out.
Speaker 2:We we have to destroy cows because their, their farts are so bad. We have to get rid of the thing, right? So just exactly what you just said. You said all right. Even if the soil is depleted, even if man has come in with Monsanto and screwed everything up, these cows have the ability to make good nutrients in their guts. So what do we got to do? We got to get rid of the cows.
Speaker 1:We got to get rid of the cows, got to blame it on the blame. You know, climate change, all these wildfires, that's because of the cow farts.
Speaker 2:You know what it is. Well, maybe it's just people farting Again. It's real simple, right, which is what your sub stack is. Basically, it's real simple people. We don't have to make this hard. If you make something hard, then people have to depend on you to figure it out for them. And I might have missed the boat years ago, dr JC, by thinking mistakenly thinking that people wanted this education, right. But sometimes I think that people just want to be told what to do, because that's exactly what. If you look at heels, oh, you have a large dog and you have a dog with a liver problems or kidney problems or gastrointestinal problems, or, you know, I'm surprised they don't have one for me. You know, like training problems, you've got a dog that can't be trained. Here we go, give them this blend.
Speaker 1:I mean it's just. I think they have a brain diet, I think they have a BD for that oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So maybe that's for behavior. Yeah, they make it simple. They don't even want the veterinarians to think. They don't want us to train the veterinarians anything about nutrition. Just pick your letter, go down the hills. I have the books. It's. This is a handy. Just go by the alphabet. What's your issue? Okay, this is what letter to sell your client, and they don't even have to think. I think the industry has trained both customers and medical professionals not to think, to be dependent, to be dependent on them. I'm doing this talk at Weston, a Price Foundation in October. I'm working on and this is what I'm talking about is the mindset. The title is like the most important aspect of animal health or something like that Most important thing for healthy animal to make a healthy animal, something like that. Um, I know my talk really well you will have it by october.
Speaker 1:It's something like it's something like that. I haven't looked at that slide in a while, but, but the idea is that is exactly what I'm talking about pet animal guardians, because I kind of cover some food, animal stuff and everything in there. Animal guardians need to step up to the plate and start to take care of their own animals and know what their animals need and not be dependent on the vet for everything. So literally saying in the talk you need to stop running to the vet for every little thing. You know your animal better than anybody else. You need to take responsibility. You need to know what is a species appropriate diet, whether it's a dog or a cat or a cow or a chicken, what were they meant to eat and how were they meant to live, and that's what they need.
Speaker 1:Health is not created by a bunch of pharmaceuticals and that's what veterinarians are taught. I think probably you know most vet students go there thinking I'm going to help, you know, make animals healthy, and isn't that going to be great? And then they're taught that the way you do that is by pumping them full of pharmaceuticals, starting with, you know, four weeks of age. So but basically what I'm talking about is we need to change that mindset. It's just like what you're saying.
Speaker 1:People need to stop being so dependent on other people and I talk about in my talk who makes your healthcare decisions. Who's your health expert? Is it Dr, google or AI or your vet? I mean, who do you go to? And people need to take that accountability and start doing it themselves. So when they see a labeling like that oh, this is just for mixers and toppers they're like no, I know what's best for my dog. I don't care what the label says. I know my dog needs to eat meat, bones and organs and I don't care what the FDA required raw dog food and company to put on the label, cause I know all that government regulation is a bunch of BS. So people need to be educated and they need to trust what they know and trust their gut and not go with the popular propaganda.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I know my team is a little, you know, upset about this, but I said guys, just tell people the truth. Tell people the truth when they call this is required. This is not what we have seen as factual. No, we don't mix. No, we don't do raw as a topper. We do it as a complete and balanced natural diet. Complete and balanced means meat, bones, organ and fat. That is what complete and balanced is to us, right, Because we wouldn't say, as a human, complete and balanced for me is a salad every night and a bunch of supplements, right? No, it's. Let's eat fish, turkey, chicken, beef, you know, beans, quinoa salad, cauliflower, broccoli. Eat as much of what nature has provided as possible and your body will thank you and your dog's body will thank you.
Speaker 1:And people need to look at their animals too. What makes their animal healthier? Eating, you know, meat, bone organ diet, or eating a diet that's kibble with a little raw food on it? You can guarantee they're going to be healthier on the raw food diet. So, again, people need to trust what they're seeing and observing. And I mean really you're going to base your animal's health on words, on a label that the FDA put up? Do you think the government has your best interest at heart?
Speaker 1:Yes, they do, absolutely I mean come on, we move beyond. Oh, the FDA says this can only be used as a topper, so that's what I'm going to do. The FDA says this can only be used as a topper, so that's what I'm going to do. That's scary that people would actually put that much trust in the government these days in my home, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So they are still jacking with the raw, the pure raw dog food company and they're using really crafty words to mixers, toppers Cause those words are already out there.
Speaker 1:You know there's a lot of food companies that already have toppers, because those words are already out there. You know there's a lot of food companies that already have toppers out there and mixers. What does mixer imply? You're mixing it with something else, right? What are you mixing it with? Oh, probably I'll just keep. Oh, it's a mixer, I'll just mix it with my kibble that makes people feel better.
Speaker 2:We'll dive deeper into that, deeper into the mindset of the fear, uh, and how we get past the fear on some future podcasts just snap out of it snap the heck out of it. People, come on now read dv's book snap out of it, snap out of it.
Speaker 2:All right, everybody, you can work with dr j6 team. She's at ahavetcom, ahavetcom. Get over there. You can sign up for her sub stack and in her media uh tab. There's so much information. There's all these podcasts, there are blogs, there are videos. So get over to AHA vetcom and get your dog on a species yes, that means the species appropriate diet. If you're confused, brian will help you. We're not going to leave you out there in the dark. Just get over to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where your pet's health is our business. And what, dr Jacek, for friends, don't let friends feed, kibble y'all. That's right, we'll see you soon, everybody. Bye-bye, bye.
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