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07/06/2025

Kibble Exists For Human Wallets, Not Canine Wellness
Commercial pet food began in the late 1800s when an English entrepreneur watched stray dogs gobble leftover ship’s biscuits—rock-hard crackers made from flour, water, and salt. He saw profit in waste, and “dog cake” was born. Every innovation since—extrusion, synthetic vitamins, flavor sprays—has focused on efficiency and shelf life, not species suitability.
Starch is indispensable to that industrial formula:
• It’s cheap. Corn, wheat, rice, potatoes, peas—whichever is on surplus fills the plant’s silos.
• It’s an adhesive. Without a gelatinized starch matrix the pellets would crumble into dust.
• It’s profitable. Ingredient cost is low, but colorful packaging and veterinary endorsements allow premium pricing.
Meat, by contrast, is expensive, bulky, and perishable. Feeding fresh muscle, organ, and bone cuts deeply into margins unless you pass the cost to consumers—and most mega-brands fear that price ceiling.

06/25/2025

Carbohydrate Diseases Are Rising
If kibble is “complete and balanced,” why are carbohydrate-linked disorders spiraling upward?
• Diabetes mellitus now affects about 1 in 65 dogs—a ten-fold jump since the early 1980s. In most cases the pancreas is still able to secrete insulin; the body has simply grown resistant after years of chronic glucose spikes.
• Obesity hovers around 55 percent of the pet dog population. Excess starch converts readily to fat, a problem worsened by the high feeding volumes required to meet caloric needs when protein is low.
• Dental decay and gum disease are rampant despite dogs’ carnivore teeth. Starch residue fuels oral bacteria that produce acid and plaque.
The conventional answer is more drugs: insulin injections, weight-loss kibble, dental prescription diets. Rarely does anyone ask whether the carbohydrate foundation itself might be the root cause.

06/22/2025

Dogs Are Built To Eat Meat And Real Food
A growing stack of peer-reviewed papers leaves little doubt that dogs remain meat specialists who can tolerate starch rather than omnivores who thrive on it.
• Dentition and jaw motion – The scissor bite and pointed premolars slice flesh and crack bone; they do not grind seed the way herbivores’ flat molars do.
• Digestive design – A dog’s stomach is highly acidic, perfect for dissolving protein and killing pathogens but not for prolonged grain fermentation.
• Metabolic flexibility – Like wolves, dogs were shaped by “feast-or-famine” cycles. They store fat efficiently, create glucose from protein, and can fast for days without harm.
Critics often cite a 2013 Nature study that found several gene duplications linked to starch digestion in domestic dogs. Adaptive? Yes. Proof that kibble is biologically ideal? Hardly. The paper itself notes the change was modest—three or four genes out of roughly 20,000—and does not overwrite millions of years of carnivorous evolution.

05/21/2025

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