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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
Fresh Ingredients vs. Private Equity Pet Foods: The Hidden Dangers
The battle for your pet's health is being waged in food bowls across the country. As raw feeding gains popularity, private equity companies have rushed to capitalize on the movement with their "fresh" alternatives - but at what cost to your pet's wellbeing?
Dr. Judy Jasek and DeDe Murcer Moffett pull back the curtain on how companies like Farmer's Dog have co-opted the raw feeding industry's messaging while creating products full of carbohydrates that break down into inflammation-causing sugars. They examine concerning research from the University of Minnesota about a new type of bladder stone potentially linked to synthetic nutrients in these processed "fresh" foods.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn toward gut health, revealing how conventional veterinary treatments create a destructive cycle. A single course of antibiotics can disrupt your pet's microbiome for nearly two years! Instead of expensive supplements, the experts recommend species-appropriate raw diets supplemented with natural ferments like sauerkraut or kimchi, along with plenty of exposure to natural environments.
One of the most telling signs of proper nutrition? Your pet's waste. The transition from large, smelly, loose stools to small, firm, nearly odorless waste isn't just more pleasant - it's a clear indicator of proper digestion and nutrient absorption. The podcast shares powerful testimonials, including a toy fox terrier who reversed years of health issues within weeks of switching to raw.
The discussion also addresses the disproportionate regulatory scrutiny facing raw pet food companies compared to human food manufacturers, highlighting the parallels with restrictions on raw milk and other unprocessed foods despite limited evidence of harm.
Ready to transform your pet's health? Visit rawdogfoodandcompany.com where friends don't let friends feed kibble, and discover how species-appropriate nutrition can add years to your pet's life and life to their years. Your pet's future self will thank you.
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Oh snap. Well, hello Raw Feeders. I'm Deedee Mercer-Moffitt, ceo of Raw Dog Food Company. We're your pet's health is our business and we're friends. Like my friend, dr Judy Jasik, she doesn't let friends feed kibble, but do you let friends feed farmer's dog or cooked food? No way, no way.
Speaker 2:No way y'all.
Speaker 1:Why not? Why not because?
Speaker 2:you're just my friend and because you know you're pretty, because didi will get mad at me if I do, oh right I'm a scary, scary person scary person with your lost ears I know I.
Speaker 1:If you can't see the video, this is there.
Speaker 1:We go very cute for halloween I love it, um, so you know, we, you, you sent me this. Okay, let me back up first of all. Um, this facebook group kind of rant, uh, on farmer's dog and nom, nom and just fig for dogs. I think it's pretty justified in my book because we do see UTIs, we see a lot of UTIs and problems coming from that food and the question is, why would we be seeing that? So I'm going to ask you first of all, they're ranting and raving about these very, very popular private equity dog foods.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me just say that again, guys, these are dog foods created from a company that said man, the bandwagon, we got to get on the bandwagon and we can tell a really good story because it's all about the story, right, and I'm telling you, farmer's Dog has the best commercials and they got the best stories. Whose stories are those? Those are our stories. That's the raw food industry story that they stole Big bunch of stinking stealers, but they stole it. Okay, not the best food. Tell us why it's not the best food, dr Jacek.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not the best food because it's got a lot of carbs in it. You know what I say no starches. So fundamentally, I think the reason you're seeing like lots of UTIs and other problems is because you got all the starch in there, which breaks down to sugar, which causes inflammation, and it's quote unquote balanced with synthetic nutrients, which is kind of the one of the points they're making in this Facebook post where they supposedly found this brand new type of bladder stone and you're like I don't know what of any of this is true. I found it interesting in a couple of points when I found it kind of interesting that they're calling out these big companies, because it seems like those have been. The companies have been allowed to get really big, you know, and advertise.
Speaker 2:So, because I think that a lot of these things that come out are BS, why are they naming these companies? I would think they'd be coming after, like the small rock companies, because that's who they want to get rid of. They want to let these private equity companies grow, I would think. So I thought it was interesting that they called them out, but they did mention this one particular nutrient the choline choline bitrate was responsible for forming these stones. So it's like well, just don't feed synthetic nutrients, which is what we recommend, all the time, you don't, and you don't got to worry about, which goes back to the benefits of raw feeding, like we recommend. So it just made me wonder, like, what's really the angle here? I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 1:well, I don't know, because this, this actually was written by, uh, the golden retriever club. Okay, and they, um, they're, they're talking about that, um, but then then it's the university of minnesota college of veterinary medicine ural lift center that supposedly discovered this new urinary stone and the likely cause, and, um, and they are saying that it's due to, um, these added supplements, and I don't know, I don't know what, uh, I mean, I've, look I at, very seldom do we see veterinarians, uh, on our side of pet health, right, so I don't know, I don't know what the angle is. I don't think we're going to know for a while. I mean, maybe, maybe, I doubt that this that this group is a holistic veterinarian. Did you happen to see him at your conference, your holistic veterinarian? No, you didn't. Okay.
Speaker 2:Did not, did not see them there, but you yeah but you did have.
Speaker 1:Who was the lady that was doing the talk that basically said let's get back to basics, let's stop doing all this nonsense. Who?
Speaker 2:was that pj broadfoot. Dr broadfoot is a veterinarian who I've been sitting in her lectures for 20, 30 years years a long time. She used to put on some weekend seminar things in the Denver area. She was a consultant with a company that made homeopathic remedies and so they would put on these seminars and stuff. Anyway, I've had lots of respect for her for a lot of years.
Speaker 2:She actually was the keynote speaker at the at the conference this year, so the whole conference kind of honored her. But anyway, she had a whole day talk on the microbiome and first of all you know she talked about which. We knew this. But you know it's good to hear how bad the drugs really are for the microbiome Cause. I mean, it's not good for the pets but it explains a lot, like, like. Why is it so hard to clear up these itchy skin dogs? Well, because they've been on 12 rounds of antibiotics and every pain medication pretty much any drug is going to have an adverse effect on the microbiome by killing off some of the um, the beneficial bacteria. So the bottom line is you got to feed the microbiome that you want to grow. So what's the best way to do that? She's like fresh, raw food and she was big in natural ferments and we've kind of switched to kind of recommending that when people say what probiotic do you recommend? Like, well, I'd get some, you know, sauerkraut or kimchi or raw fermented dairy or something like that. So you know you're at least feeding a live culture.
Speaker 2:And and she talked about how individual is, like every pet's different, and she doesn't test. She doesn't test. I loved this too. She does not do the like animal biome or legacy biome. She does not do the tests where they go in and they see well what bacteria are in the gut. She's like they pretty much need to be supplemented anyway, cause most dogs have had lots of drugs and maybe haven't been on the best diet, so just feed them the ferments, like they're going to need them anyway, and you could have 10,000 species of bacteria in the gut in your testing for 20. So, like what does that really mean?
Speaker 2:So, and I I've thought that for a long time too, that don't spend hundreds of dollars on doing this testing, just work on correcting the diet, doing the appropriate diet, adding in some natural ferments, ferments for nature, and this also includes just letting dogs get out and get out in nature and dig in the dirt. They're going to get a lot of, you know, bacteria that way. Get them out of the concrete jungle and out where they can really be exposed to nature. So I thought that was really refreshing. She wasn't pushing a bunch of supplements that, you know, we see a lot. Lectures are, you know, designed to sometimes sell stuff. Well, you just do this and this and this, this. She wasn't like that, it was like whole food stuff, but a lot of good science behind it. I think there was one study that in cats, one course of clindamycin, which is an antibiotic, used a lot for dental disease. I don't know exactly how they did this study, but the results were disrupted the microbiome for 600 days, so almost two years.
Speaker 2:So, so when you look at these pets that are on course, after course, after course and then they have a hard time transitioning to raw, well, that's why it's not the raw. Is that their guts are like so screwed up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was talking.
Speaker 2:Epical is another one that really damaged the microbiome. Anyway, we'll think about this.
Speaker 1:You got crappy food and then you got a gut that doesn't work and you got the itchies. Okay, so now we're going to get on some antibiotic, because you must have some sort of bacteria in there right Now. We got bad food, we got antibiotics. It's going to disrupt the gut. Then we still got the itchies. Now we're going to Apple quail.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, dr Jasek, I don't know how you ever get the pet's body on the right shift. Turn the shift around, I mean, and then and then it's. I put my dog on raw and it wasn't totally healed in two weeks. It's like, well, I'm not Jesus, right, I'm not Jesus. I can't, you know, do these incredible miracles for you. But I can tell you that I have been doing this for 25 years and um in our body of work we have seen I've been feeding raw for 25 years. And um in our body of work we have seen I've been feeding well for 25 years. And our body of work, over the over the last 10 years, over the last decade, we've seen massive changes in in in the pet's health. I was talking to somebody today who said my cat's got all types of gut issues and I said I promise you it's the food.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, and this morning I went out to walk, lazi and I, and I looked down and some dog had done a really big poop on my lawn and they didn't pick it up. So I had to pick it up and it was the biggest, blackest, runniest hibble poop ever and I wanted to say who was that dog? That dog needs some help. It needs to get that dog some raw food.
Speaker 2:It was awful.
Speaker 1:I was like who sees their poop, their dogs poop like that, and thinks that that's okay, you know it's been normalized.
Speaker 2:People aren't taught to know People think that there's something wrong, like, okay, you know it's been normalized. People aren't taught to know people think that there's something wrong. Like when you know us, people like that we've helped transition to raw house dogs, poops Well, I don't know, they're kind of strange. They're like small and formed and and a little dry and they're kind of white and I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what you want and they're like really, I'm like, yeah, because they're. They're used to seeing these big, ginormous hoops. I I talked to a client the other day that was had been an ongoing client and she was on that spot, spot and tango.
Speaker 2:I think that one and one and one other one oh, a new one. I hadn't heard of Maeve. It's M-A-E-B-E, always coming out with new ones. So I looked at both of those and like the second ingredient was like potato and she's like my dog's poops, like her dog. She was having trouble actually getting her dog to gain weight and the dog's poops are really big. I'm like, yeah, because they're pooping out all that potato. You know like we got to get them on the meat-based diet so that they're actually getting the calories. And she was feeding amounts based on calories. So I was like, well, we need those calories to eat. Your feeding to be meat. You know that they're meant to eat, but it's just, it's normalized, that's what people are used to seeing, and so they think dogs are supposed to be overweight and arthritic and have big giant poops and get cancer when they're.
Speaker 1:And they have no idea. I have no idea. I have no idea how they got cancer. Okay, already then, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then another girl that I was talking to. She also has cats and unwell, they were unwell, um. But she said to me I thought this was funny. She said but I just, you know, I um, I think they also had dogs. But she said but you know, I know I need to get my dog on a better food and I love them. They're the love of my life. She said, but if I give them raw chicken and they eat it out in the grass in the backyard, for the life of me I wouldn't feel good about all that bacteria that's leaving in my yard. Oh gosh, I was like, do what now? I didn't say it, I didn't even because that was like a whole. I could just tell that that was going to be a very long conversation, but I was just like that's worse than your dog's poop. Yeah, the poop, the poop. I saw the day in my yard, number one. I would have liked to have known who's not carrying a bag.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, right, they should have picked it up regardless of the size crappy poops out of my yard.
Speaker 1:But number two I should leave a card. Should have put a card right in the poop and just said call me, you know like.
Speaker 2:Clearly, your dog needs help. Clearly, your dog's poop needs help. A little picture of of a pile of raw poop or raw fed poop and like this is what your dog's poop should look like yeah, you, you don't have a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so anyway, um, hey, another on another front. Um, recalls are back in the raw dog food world and I think you know, you, you did a subsect not too long ago about what recalls mean and you know, quite frankly, folks, they mean nothing. I mean what we see on the inside and what we do know is this is a push. This is a push to annihilate all pure raw food. They want it all bacteria free, they want it all hpp. Just like you know our food in the grocery stores, right, can we get raw milk? No, um, that sort of thing, they want it, they.
Speaker 1:And and it doesn't even have anything to do with the dogs, right, it doesn't have anything to do with the dog's health. They're looking at it from the people's side and you're like okay. So it really does make me wonder, dr Jasek, about the fish, about the chicken and about the meat that is in our grocery stores that we think, as humans, that it's, you know, so fresh and we think that it's great. And you kind of wonder what are they doing? Are they doing a bacteria free type food, adulterating our food that we think is fresh in the grocery stores?
Speaker 2:yeah, well, I've heard that that that food has way more bacteria than like a raw food, like in a pet food plant, because you guys are so, so heavily scrutinized that you have to be really careful. Those, those um in the grocery store they're assuming that it's going to be cooked and so they actually allow more bacteria there.
Speaker 1:I mean, we don't really know what's going on with our food supply.
Speaker 2:We don't. But they will unquestionably target the industries that they want to target, like they've continually targeted raw milk. Like if people want to drink raw milk, like who cares? Or let you can't. Like legally. Joel Salton talks to this, talks about this a lot. This is one of his big rants is that people should be able to sell like meat to their neighbors. Like you can't raise a chicken, butcher a chicken and sell the parts to your neighbor. You can't make a pound cake and legally sell it to your neighbor unless you're in, you know, a USDA inspected kitchen. You know you have to have. Yeah, you legally can't. Now people probably do, but all these bake sales, all these bake sales.
Speaker 1:Everybody's got to go to jail.
Speaker 2:Pretty much. I mean, I think on that small scale they don't do anything but say you wanted to advertise Cause? I listened to his podcast and they were talking about this. The this co-host on his podcast was saying she had a friend that made really good something muffins or cookies or something and she's like she decided to sell them, so she put them on Facebook and that she was selling them and they shut her down because legally can't do it. So now, like a private bake sale or something probably is different.
Speaker 2:But these are people that like want to make a living selling things. Um, you know, you can't. I know there's a lot of farmers markets here where you can sell, you know, but there's, but there's rules. I mean there's, there's state laws. One of the farmer's markets I go to, you know the guy has got raw milk there and I said you're selling raw milk and he says for pets only. So, but people know, yeah, but people buying it from him like crazy, because you don't have to buy the herd share. Then, like we have a herd share with a dairy, so you own part of the cow and then we get our dairy or milk and yogurt every week. But he said well, it's, you know, for pet use only. So you know you can. You can get away with it that way.
Speaker 2:But you know they're they're they're hard on industries. They want to be hard and you know I think it's like they don't want people to see the difference. They don't want people to see how much healthier are when you drink raw milk instead of the pasteurized, homogenized, are you know BHT, with the growth hormones and all that crap from the grocery store. They don't want people to see how much healthier pets are on a species appropriate raw diet, because then that would make all their you know foods look bad and heaven forbid that we got them healthy and they don't have to go to the vet for all these drugs all the time. You know they might, they might lose money. They just don't want that information to get out there.
Speaker 2:But I thought you know that post back to that post on the stones I. It seemed kind of contradictory to me that they're on the one hand kind of calling out the fresh food industry but then also calling out a specific synthetic ingredient added into it, cause I don't know, maybe is that in kibble diets, is that in other diets besides? It's just a synthetic, I don't even know why it's in there, but I thought that it was just an interesting like dichotomy, cause it was kind of like well, it's fresh food, but if you just avoid this one synthetic nutrient, then maybe you know it, it would be, it would be okay. So they didn't talk about like well, maybe they did mention raw in there, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:I didn't see where it said. It just said when you add that in.
Speaker 2:Add that in Right.
Speaker 1:And that's why we say you know, look at your ingredient list. And I still breaking the mindset is so incredibly hard. I don't work at it like I used to because I'm tired. People do what they do. I'm just like does it make any sense to you? Have you evolved, let me ask you, have you evolved to eat processed food? Do you feel better when you eat processed food? Do you have more energy? Do you have a glow about you? Do you have a six pack? Do you? You know you feel less inflammation in your body and, of course, they're like heck, no, and I'm like right. So tell me why that's better for your dog, right? Well, the bacteria. Okay, there are no known, real known cases of that. And if you even had a case where a vet said this dog is suffering from salmonella, osis, I don't really think that they could make a great case for it. Right? They couldn't say you know, here's the food, here's the poop, here's the this, here's this, and those go together.
Speaker 2:Right. So it's never, it's never been proven, never, ever, ever been proven. But people will just take it on the propaganda because they get scared, you know. But those same people will line up for the vaccines too.
Speaker 1:So and that. See, that's that's. That's, that's the thing. It's more than just food. Yes, it is, you know it is. That's. The thing that we sell is food. But, honestly, we've tried to educate for years and years, and years, so it hasn't been just the food that we've educated on, but it is the whole thing, right. What is going into the body, what is the water? What is the stress level, what is the EMF level, what is the pesticides and herbicides? And all of it goes into it, right, but again, food is the one thing that is a constant. It is the thing that you have to have to grow to sustain life. So if your belief is that cooked food with synthetic vitamins is a good diet over something that the creatures were created to eat, you know I that that's not. That's not something I can. I can really battle.
Speaker 2:No, but I think people, you know, anthropomorphize to, you know themselves. Well, this is the way I eat. You know I eat chicken and rice and veggies, so I'll just feed that to my dog. But we're not, we're not the same. I think people think their dogs are humans in dog suits, but they're really not and I think we need to treat them like dogs, I mean, and in their lifestyle too, we need to acknowledge their dogs. They're not, you know they're not humans, they're pack animals. And this you know whole, you know emotional stress, that the energetics of. There's a principle. I went to this one lecture of. There's a principle. I went to this one lecture.
Speaker 2:There's a like a part of anthroposophic medicine that you know talks about the environment and culture. So in humans, anthroposophic medicine, they will for therapy, they will do arts, they'll have people draw, they'll do music, they'll do things like that you know, know that are healing. So we really need to think about what environment are our pets in, and treating part of treating the whole environment is treating the humans. So if the humans are not healthy or the humans are stressed and you know we all get stressors life happens. But we just have to recognize that that affects our pets too. So our pets are going to take that on and people just need to, you know, consider that that that is part of of pet health. It's not just about any one thing, it's the, it's the whole package. But everybody has to feed their pets. I mean people can decide not to do some of these other things, not to do vaccines, or flea and tick or some of these other, but everybody has to feed their pet. So if you're going to feed them anyway.
Speaker 2:Why not make it really count?
Speaker 1:Right and, and you know, I, I know, I know people, that I know people, and they fed, and they feed pills or prescription diet for the entire life of the dog, the entire life of the dog. And I'm just like dry, synthetic, low quality nutrition. I, I, just, I, I it, it just, it's, it just is so gross to me I can't really stand it. But you know, you see that, you see that that the veterinarians sell that and we cannot seem to make the connection that they must not know what they're talking about in nutrition. No, we say the people who have the dogs that are the healthiest must not know what they're talking about in nutrition. No, we say the people who have the dogs that are the healthiest must not know what they're talking about because they don't have the coats on and I'm just like, okay, your dog is not getting any better and those vet bills are extremely expensive. Those vet bills are extremely expensive. And is there a possibility that you could try something else? And see, not be so afraid, not be so afraid of the, the, the, the boogeyman, the boogeyman bacteria. Right, we always have to have a boogeyman out there and that will keep people from doing the right thing.
Speaker 1:But man, we get some amazing testimonials about dogs' health. Gosh, we just got one that was amazing. I can't, I should have had it. Let's see, let's see, let me see if I can find that real quick. I don't think I can. I got too many texts. Do you know how you do that, dr Jasek? You got like 5 million texts that in. You're like.
Speaker 2:Hmm, I don't have. I don't have. I don't know as many people as you do, so I don't Okay.
Speaker 1:Now my work.
Speaker 2:I don't have any. I don't have any of my work stuff on my phone, so I can literally walk away from my computer and I have no work stuff. Except that I'll tell you know if my employees need to text me something urgent. They know they always can, but I don't have any contact. I don't have my business email, nothing. So I can walk away, because I just sometimes need a break.
Speaker 1:You do, you do. Well, I'm going to give you a break because I'm going to read this real quick, okay, Okay, all right. So this is from Kay, and she was reviewing the beef mix that we have, and here's what she said. She said my TFT. I don't know what that is, my TFT, what is that? Said my TFT. I don't know what that is, my TFT, what is that TFT? I don't know. But anyway, she said she loves her mealtime.
Speaker 1:Once again, for six years of Lucy's life I was able to feed her various raw meats because I lived in areas where you could hunt. And three years ago I moved to a very urban area Absolutely no hunting here and she said I searched and spent a lot of money on high quality dog food and her stomach was all out of whack. Blood in her stools plus her poops were enormous. Just talked about that. And she said within three years she gained two and a half pounds. It may not sound like much, but she's a five pound toy fox terrier. That grew to be seven and a half pounds. That's your TFT.
Speaker 2:There you go yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there it is. She'd look like a football with legs. And she said I knew all the dog food was killing her and I continued to search to find a company like this and was so excited to finally find raw dog food and company and I've been singing their praises of her new food to everyone around me, whether they want to hear it or not. She said her stomach is balanced again, she's losing weight and she is so excited for mealtime.
Speaker 1:Her poops are now the size of a Tootsie roll. Her poop is solid and firm and this is important because she is so little that it's hard to excrete or express her anal glands. So she said, firm poops do that for her. So no concerns of ruptured glands anymore and I thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I believe you saved her life. If you are questioning about whether it's okay to feed your dog raw food, I beg you to try it. It's what they are supposed to eat. Their stomachs are different than ours. They don't need it cooked and all those food toppers and extra things only ultimately kill them slowly. Please give Raw Dog Food and Company a try and, as she said, I bet you'll write a review like mine.
Speaker 2:Wow, it's nice nice, it's very nice, it's really. It's really cool when people take the time to to write something like that.
Speaker 1:You know yeah, people are busy and you know it's really nice yeah, they left a little picture of our dog, and we love that. Um, we on the reviews, we have a place where you can put a picture of your dog or, uh, you can do a video, and that's the thing that we love. We love to see the pets. So that's, you know, that's why we do what we do, that's why you do what you do, because people love their pets and they love to see them healthy, and I think it just, um, you gotta have the courage to do it. I know, here on the podcast, we, you know we're talking to the people that are already feeding raw, but if you guys can leave a review or um, tell us how people, uh, how you talk to people about raw food and what, what their fears are, and we'll tell you how to talk to them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, people are. People are afraid, but they're afraid because of the stinking vets. So quit going to the vet.
Speaker 1:There you go. But if you want to see a vet that's not a stinking vet, that's a good vet you can see Dr Jacek and her team at ahavetcom because she is truly a holistic vet. You're not going to get kibble, you're not going to get allibble, you're not going to get um, all of those toxins, uh, put in your dog. So if you want a healthier way to take care of your pet, you want to get her to a H a vetcom. And remember, get your dog on a species. That means that means a food that they were created to eat. Get over to raw dog food and companycom. Brian will help you. I know we have a lot of products. We try to take them away, but then people come after us. So we have a lot of, we have a lot of products, but we will help you get the ones that you can get started on. So get over to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where your pet's health is our business and what Dr Jacek Our friends.
Speaker 2:don't let friends feed, kibble y'all, that's right.
Speaker 1:We'll see you soon, everybody.
Speaker 2:Oh snap.
Speaker 1:Find out how you can start your dog on the road to health and longevity. Go to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where friends don't let friends feed kibble and where your pet's health is our business.
