What are the healthiest cat foods you can give your cat to ensure the best health and longest life? The perfect choice of cat food will make a world of difference in your cat’s health. Daily food consumption either stimulates or suppresses the immune system, so getting it right is key to your cat’s health.
With all the confusing array of conflicting information about, what really is a good, healthy cat food? Who can you trust? Let’s go back to basics and work from there.
Cats evolved by eating their prey that they had just killed. Consider what the prey consists of, say a mouse. A wild mouse will be well muscled, with little fat. There are organs, which are found in smaller quantities than muscle meat. There are small bones. The meat is raw and very fresh.
Compare this to what is normally put into commercial cat food.
Meat is often meat by-products. Meat by-products are understood to be the result of recycling plants. Which is a collection of dead animals from road kills, pets and euthanized horses, slaughterhouse waste, such as fat, and the like.
Carcasses can sit in the processing plant for days before being processed.
Processing plants use high temperatures and pressures to process carcasses.
The ‘meat’ is then stuffed with cheap filler so that it makes more economic sense for the supplier, but not for your cat’s health. Common filling is melamine, sugar, any cheap grain, nut shells, etc.
Because this ‘food’ is so nutrient deficient, attempts are being made to address this deficit by adding isolated and synthetic ‘nutrients’. These are completely out of natural balance and are at best a waste of money and at worst can cause harm.
Other synthetic chemicals are added to improve texture, color, flavor, preservation, scent enhancement, to be accepted by your cat, etc.
Can you tell the difference between a commercial brand of cat food and your own ‘brand’?
Most natural food specialists, including most holistic veterinarians, can give you firsthand experience of what a change in diet can do. Take a cat with a recurring disease. Change the diet to a natural one. Wait a week or two. The recurring disease disappears, never to return.
Most people would accept that as reliable evidence. Especially when it happens over and over again.