Positive Research Supporting Feeding Your Pet Raw Food

I've seen the clear benefits of feeding raw for the last decade with my own dogs, and now exponentially more in the last three years in a shop. But I often hear that there are loads of anecdotal evidence, but there's no hard data to support that raw food diet is more beneficial than an ultra-processed diet like kibble. Because, of course, we already know this.

But this is somehow lost in the pet world.

This episode is dedicated to the people who are maybe still skeptical of feeding real food to their pets and want concrete data, or the dedicated pet owners who are having trouble speaking to their vets, friends, family, et cetera, about feeding raw food and just want some hard data to back them up.

• Frontiers | Early Life Modifiable Exposures and Their Association With Owner Reported Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms in Adult Dogs
• Raw Meat-Based Diets in Dogs and Cats
• Frontiers | Effects of a whole food diet on immune function and inflammatory phenotype in healthy dogs: a randomized, open-labelled, cross-over clinical trial
• Health via Nutrition, Epidemiology and Disease Detection Dogs | University of Helsinki

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