They Are Experimenting on Your Dog?
Nick Thompson - Brownstone
- "I am a practising veterinary surgeon in the UK. I have spent over 30 years in clinical practice, and I am the founding president of the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society. I also lecture on canine nutrition at the University of Glasgow and around the world. I was in Florida last year and San Diego the year before. I am writing a book on ultraprocessed food for dogs, because someone needs to say plainly what the pet food industry would rather you never thought about: your dog has been subjected to the most sustained ultraprocessed feeding experiment in mammalian history, and almost nobody noticed."
- "Raw and fresh diets, by contrast, have received almost no industry funding, which means almost no large-scale trials. Vets are then honestly told there is “no evidence” for raw, because nobody with money has paid for that evidence to exist."
- "It is rather like sponsoring every study on buses and then declaring there is “no evidence” that bicycles work."
- "Commercial kibble is manufactured through a process called extrusion: ingredients are forced through a barrel at extreme temperatures and pressures, then puffed, dried, and coated with fats and flavour enhancers to make the result palatable. The process is industrial and efficient, producing a product with a shelf life measured in months or years."
- "A 2026 study by the Clean Label Project tested 79 dog food products across an ISO 17025-accredited laboratory and found that dry kibble contained 21.2 times more lead than fresh or frozen food, 20.7 times more mercury, 13.3 times more arsenic, and 6.1 times more cadmium. The highest lead level in a dry food sample was 1,576.5 parts per billion."
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