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What role does the pet food industry play in perpetuating the canine obesity epidemic?

Daniel Schulof Pet food is a $20 billion annual industry in the United States. And industry forces seem to be playing a bit of a mixed role when it comes to the cani…morePet food is a $20 billion annual industry in the United States. And industry forces seem to be playing a bit of a mixed role when it comes to the canine obesity epidemic. On the one hand, a sizable fraction of the funding for small animal nutritional research comes from pet food companies and the charitable foundations to which they contribute. Funding for small animal research is notoriously hard to come by. So it’s a very good thing that industry uses some of its largesse to help the scientific community improve our understanding of nutrition and obesity.

But the close relationship between the pet food industry and the scientific community is both a blessing and a curse. Because those financial ties create some profound conflicts of interest between researchers whose duty it is to understand and explain the true causes of obesity and the multinational corporations that fund much of their research.

If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ve seen a number of recent stories about the ways that the sugary industry has suppressed scientific findings showing just how unhealthy sugar is. The same forces that compelled that type of malfeasance are also at work in the world of pet food. Just as with the sugar industry, the leading pet food firms have a vested interest in promoting or exaggerating the health benefits of some very specific ingredients, particularly the starchy carbohydrates (corn, wheat, rice, potatoes) around which almost all dry dog food products are constructed.

There is a good deal of published scientific research suggesting that those very ingredients are uniquely fattening for dogs and that they play an outsized role in causing canine obesity. But that research is almost never discussed in veterinary nutrition textbooks. Which sounds surprising until one realizes that the leading textbooks are, literally, written by pet food companies.
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In your book you describe America’s canine obesity problem as an “epidemic.” Why is that?

Daniel Schulof The American Medical Association considers obesity a disease. And it isn’t hard to see why. It is a condition that compromises all manner of vital bod…moreThe American Medical Association considers obesity a disease. And it isn’t hard to see why. It is a condition that compromises all manner of vital bodily functions, it has direct pathophysiological ties to an assortment of deadly comorbidities, and it shortens expected lifespan.

And all this is true for canine obesity too. A landmark study published in 2002 showed that moderately overweight dogs tend to die much, much younger than their leaner counterparts. Being just moderately overweight is deadlier for a dog than a lifetime of smoking is for a human being. Obesity is tied to all sorts of common canine diseases, notably including cancer, the most common cause of death for dogs in the United States today.

And given how common canine obesity is—depending on which researcher you ask, one-third to one-half of the more than seventy million dogs in America today are overweight or obese—we’re fully justified in calling it an epidemic.
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The Facts About Grain-Free Diets and Canine Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Part Two — The Scandal

I wrote part one of this two-part series in August 2018. At the end of it I told readers to expect part two in “about a month.”

That was about a year ago.

So why’d it take so long? In short, I’ve come to believe there’s a scandal at the heart of the matter and it has taken me longer than I expected to develop the evidence documenting everything. Sorry for the delay, but once you get through this pos

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