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Pet owners & Marion Nestle fans, come in!
I have been waiting for this book for almost a year! Basically, it's Marion Nestle's "What to Eat" for feeding your pet!
Come's out May 11.
Feed Your Pet Right is an entertaining and informative examination of the booming pet food industry?its history, constituent companies, products, and marketing practices?written by two experts who took an objective look at the science behind pet food industry practices and claims. The book should be of interest to anyone who cares about how businesses function in today?s market economy but it especially aims to give pet owners the facts they need to decide for themselves how best to feed their cats or dogs. The result of extensive research by experts in animal and human nutrition, the book covers the range of pet food products available, analyzes the ingredients in those products, reveals how and why pet food labels look the way they do, and explains how to read and decode the information and health claims on those labels. With this information, pet owners can better evaluate the quality and safety of what they are buying for their cats and dogs. The authors make no attempt to dictate how pet owners should feed their cats and dogs. Instead, Feed Your Pet Right provides a roadmap to providing healthful diets for cats and dogs in ways that fit the great range of pet owners? personal beliefs, value systems, and lifestyle choices. The book also explains how pet foods are and are not regulated, how pet food companies influence government oversight and veterinary training and research, and how ethical considerations affect pet food research and product development. The book concludes with specific recommendations not only for pet owners, but also for the pet food industry, government regulators, and veterinarians.
Re: Pet owners & Marion Nestle fans, come in!
awesome! I love Marion Nestle.
I can't help but be a little nervous! I hope its a good book!!
I'm skeptical of 'what to feed your dog' books written by human nutrition 'experts' and that focus solely on traditional commercial foods, which are inappropriate for them anyway!
Since this isn't her first book about pet food, I'm hopefull. We'll see!
http://www.foodpolitics.com/pet-food-politics-the-chihuahua-in-the-coal-mine/
Not to be argumentative, but that book (which I have not read) isn't really about pet food and nutrition, rather its about the pet food recalls, contamination and food safety/governance.
I'm a bit of a pet nutrition crazy snob.