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Upgrading to Pasture-Fed

Are you ready to take the final step toward your dog’s optimum diet?

by CJ Puotinen

The foundation of nearly every home-prepared diet for dogs is animal-source protein, such as beef, lamb, chicken, turkey, dairy products, or eggs.

Most cattle are raised on grass pastures and “finished” with a 60- or 90-day stay in a feedlot, eating a grain-rich diet (mostly corn) that is literally laced with antibiotics, to prevent illness caused by stress, overcrowding, and the unnatural diet.
These foods are so abundant in our supermarkets that we take them for granted and assume they are nutritious. After all, our scientists, public health officials, and medical experts make no distinction between food produced by animals raised outdoors on open pasture and that of animals raised in confinement on factory farms.

But you are what you eat, as the saying goes, and the difference between the meat of factory-raised animals and animals that dine on open pasture is dramatic. Many holistic veterinary health practitioners routinely…


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