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What is Organic? Organic refers to environment-friendly farm­ing meth­ods using no arti­fi­cial pes­ti­cides, fer­til­iz­ers or chem­i­cals to pro­duce the purest and most nat­ural foods pos­si­ble. Organic, earth-friendly farm­ing prac­tices pro­mote the sus­tain­able value of our nat­ural resources and pro­duce ben­e­fi­cial nour­ish­ing foods for our fam­i­lies and com­pan­ion pets.

Since the advent of gro­cery store com­mer­cial dog food, there has been an explo­sion of pets dying from tumors, growths, can­cers, and dis­eases that were unheard many years ago.

I truly believe this has been caused by the unhealthy chem­i­cals, pes­ti­cides, hor­mones, fats and preser­v­a­tives used to make this cereal based kib­ble palat­able and long lived. Can you imag­ine eat­ing a dry, cereal like, taste­less food every day, that in fact can sit on the shelf for years and not spoil. Obi­ously there are heavy duty chem­i­cals and preser­v­a­tives used to extend the shelf life. It’s like eat­ing saw­dust with a chem­i­cal enhanced fla­vor, to cover up all the harm­ful additives.

Chang­ing to organic dog food, whether it is home made organic, with the same all nat­ural ingre­di­ents you eat for sup­per, or buy­ing the pre­mium high grade organic dog food that has become increas­ingly pop­u­lar, is the best you can do for your four legged com­pan­ion. An organic dog food marked 95% organic meets the same guide­lines as organic food pro­duced for humans. The food won’t con­tain pes­ti­cides or antibi­otics, and it’s pre­served with nat­ural sub­stances like Vit­a­mins C and E. Organ­i­cally cer­ti­fied pet food is more costly, just as our own organic food is more expen­sive, but the advan­tages of supe­rior pet health and help­ing our envi­ron­ment is worth it to most of us.

Organic dog food will say it is using cer­ti­fied organic ingre­di­ents, and should say which agency has done the certification.

Foods with a lot of fillers are cheaper but less nutri­tious. Just as with human organic food, nat­ural organic ingre­di­ents will go a long way toward giv­ing your pet a long, healthy life.

Some of the ben­e­fits of switch­ing to organic dog food are: Higher energy, more activ­ity, stronger bones and teeth, and a beau­ti­ful healthy coat.  — Helps pre­vent itch­ing and irri­tat­ing skin con­di­tions, because organic dog food is free of arti­fi­cial col­ors and fla­vor enhancers, chem­i­cal addi­tives and toxic pes­ti­cides that could cause many of these skin aller­gies. In some cases com­pletely elim­i­nat­ing these aller­gic skin reactions. — It is eas­ier to main­tain a health­ier weight, because organic dog food is supe­rior in nutri­tional value, and this pre­vents overeat­ing in you dog as they are more sat­is­fied eat­ing smaller amounts. There are no bulk fillers in organic dog food. — Better over­all health and a stronger immu­nity. Even if you dog seems healthy he/she can still ben­e­fit. An increased immune sys­tem will help pre­vent long term, costly ill­nesses and infec­tions, that may require costly med­ical treatments. — Quality of life and longevity are increased by feed­ing organic dog food as opposed to the cereal filled cheap dog food.

Organic dog will be for­mu­lated with human grade meat, not ground bits and pieces of ani­mals that are unfit for human con­sump­tion, or ran­cid road kill, as the cheaper store bought com­mer­cial food indus­try uses. Also you should find an organic dog food that boasts using no corn, wheat, soy, grain frac­tions, fillers or by-products.

Learn to deci­pher labels on com­mer­cial pet foods. They are pur­pose­fully deceiv­ing us into buy­ing low grade, unhealthy food all for profit, not for the health of our pet.

To buy organic dog food or to make home made organic dog food will guar­an­tee what you pet is ingest­ing and give him/her a bet­ter chance at a healthy, longer, hap­pier, more ener­getic life.