Why Is Grain Free Dog Food Actually a Scam?

With a lot of pride, dog owners emphasize that their dogs eat grain free food. And what do these dogs actually eat? In grain free food, grains are replaced by peas, potatoes and the like. These are still foods that contain a lot of starch that is completely unnecessary in a dog's diet. 

Food that contains a lot of starch causes obesity in dogs and consequently diabetes. It also causes inflammatory processes on the skin caused by fungi because fungi feed on starch. And finally, such food causes inflammatory processes in the intestines because undesirable intestinal microflora thrives on starch, which results in chronic diarrhea and hypersensitivity to food.
So the owners mistakenly think that there is more meat in grain-free food and other foods of animal origin. They are under the delusion that it is a much higher quality food than it really is. Cereals have not been replaced by quality foods of animal origin, but by plant-based foods that are more or less equally unnecessary for dogs. 

What is the main problem with grain free food? Peas, for example, have more protein than cereals that are standardly used in dog food. These proteins will be included in the total amount of proteins contained in certain food and the food will appear to the owners to be of higher quality due to the higher percentage of proteins. But these vegetable proteins are useless to the dog. And apart from the fact that the dog cannot use them, they also do not contain the amino acid taurine, which is very important for heart health. It is precisely because of the lack of taurine that grain-free food is associated with the occurrence of dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs in one study.
And just don't make the wrong conclusion and think that then it is a better option to feed your dog with food that contains grains!
Do you know where there is a lot of taurine? In raw red meat. What is the main ingredient of Von BARF products. In meat that has been processed to produce dehydrate, taurine is also destroyed. We hope that we have been able to explain to you how important it is to understand the composition of dog food and to choose what is best for a dog as a carnivore, and that is definitely a diet based on raw meat.