Should You Be Using Holistic Cat Food?
Posted on : 06-12-2009 | By : Christine Pinkston | In : Family and Home
Holistic cat food means that the food is all natural and yes you should be using it.
One of the reasons cats live such a short time is because most cat food produces don’t make nutritious food.
A normal cat only lives to about the age of nine but the natural life span for cats is around twenty eight years. One of the contributing factors for how long a cat lives is the nutrition of the food he eats. The majority of the commercial food is no better for your cat then feeding him Twinkies.
Just imagine what would happen to you if you ate nothing but junk food for the next nine years.
When you have food that is free of everything that is not found naturally then you have holistic food. The problem with cat food being holistic is that you never know what is actually in it. The cat food company’s only have to claim the ingredients that are put into the food after it reaches their plant.
That means that if the meat (I’m using that term loosely) was brought to the plant with preservatives in it that they could still claim that it is preservative free. By law this is okay for them to do.
Another thing to think about is what kind of meat goes into your feline’s food. Any thing that is not consumable by humans can be put into wet or dry food, from cancerous cow lungs to poisoned pound animals.
The poison that is used when they put down the dogs and cats does not cook out at the temperatures that the processing plant uses. That means that you may very well be slowly poisoning your cat.
So what should you do?
One of the things you could do is to start making your cat homemade cat food. While this might sound like a time consuming option it really isn’t. When your cat starts getting the proper nutrition he will eat less food so you will only need to feed your cat once a day.
Feeding your cat healthy cat food will make a huge difference in the quality of your cats life. Always make sure you are feeding your cat safe cat food!
