Gary Brecka examines why U.S. pets are obese and sick, blaming pet food companies that push ultra-processed, low-protein diets high in refined carbs. He argues pets followed the same nutritional mistakes humans made, and that real food can reverse the damage.
Over 50% of the pets in this country are overweight or obese. Cats that live inside, over 80% of them are highly stressed. Cancer incidence in dogs is 1.6 out of every 2.
We have messed up what we're feeding our animals. Looking at the framing of what has happened to healthcare in America, I never actually thought about superimposing that to our pets.
The veterinary field is highly influenced by Big Pharma and big pet food, and they make ultra-processed food, and the waste products of all that ultra-processed food go to our pets.
And the same way that we started the war on saturated fat and protein in favor of high glycemic carbohydrates in humans, we probably did the same thing with our animals.
That's why food therapy to me is so cool, because we can keep things in balance. Where we get disease is where it gets out of balance.
And so the same goes for our pets. If we were to distill this down, where we've gone wrong in how we treat our pets, What would it distill down to?
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