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feeding dogs meat
if you feed your dogs meat (raw or cooked) do you worry about it being mass produced? or do you just figure that its better then feeding them commercial dog food?
Re: feeding dogs meat
I think feeding raw would be really expensive if you go for ethical meat.
The way I see it, the meat most people get for dog feeding isn't meat people will eat. It's using scraps from the "bad" meat, but that doesn't really trigger the production of more of it.
I feed raw. In order to not go broke, I try to stick to $2/lb or less, so no, my dogs aren't eating organic. I buy whole turkeys and chickens and we all eat from them. My husband chopped up the turkeys and we ate the breasts, the dogs got everything else. I buy beef and whole fish when the store reduces it for quick sale and I put it in my freezer.
ETA: I started feeding raw because one of my dogs has extreme allergies and the one commercially produced dog food he can eat is ZiwiPeak. It's $100 for a 10lb bag and between the two dogs, we use 3-4 bags each month. My goal with raw is to spend less than $300 per month, and that's just not feasible for organic food.
I wish we could afford to feed raw organically and ethically. We buy organic, local organ meats but the rest of the meat comes from a supplier that supplies a lot of restaurants in the area.
I'm so torn on this, but the way I keep reminding myself to see it is that we're buying meat from an animal that's already been killed for human consumption. Not for my consumption, because it's not up to my standards. The pieces I'm buying for Nandi are things that wouldn't be used for human consumption - lamb necks, turkey tails, turkey necks, things like that. So, I pretend I'm doing my part in making sure that while the animal wasn't treated the way I'm comfortable with, at least it's death wasn't as needless as it could be because I'm using parts that would have been tossed anyway. Until everyone is on board with buying local, ethically raised meat I won't be able to afford raw another way. I'm sure if there was a demand for it, my supplier would offer the humanely treated products. Apparently, though, it's not in demand. : (