Pork absent from dog food.

If that is why you don't eat pork, you'd better give up:

I already have...I am a vegetarian. :B:B

rockhillmanor wrote:
They Have a very short digestive tract so toxins stay in the body tissues.

:S

Don't let science get in the way of a good story.

If that is why you don't eat pork, you'd better give up:

Beef
Leptospirosis
Q fever
Campylobacteriosis
Brucellosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Yersiniosis
Salmonella
Listeriosis
Ringworm
Anthrax
Dermatophilosis
E. coli
Giardiasis
Pseudocowpox
Rabies
Tuberculosis
Vesicular Stomatitis


Chicken
Bird flu, Avian influenza
Botulism, Limberneck
Campylobacteriosis
E. coli
Salmonellosis
West Nile virus

Fish
Streptococcus
Staphylococcus
Clostridium
Vibrio
Plesiomonas shigelloides
Aeromonas
Pseudomonas
Escherichia
Salmonella
Edwardsiella

Beerboy wrote:

I'll see "wild boar" on a number of the grain-free dog food like Taste of the Wild.

It's pork, though I guess maybe raised slightly different than domestic pigs? Or marketing lingo for pork.

Wild boar is a huge fad right now. all it takes is searching and reading about the diseases of wild boar to change ones mind about feeding it to our pets.

Wild boars have interbred with feral pigs and have become a nuisance all over the South.

Local Hunters abound and I suspect that is where the dog food companies are getting the meat from NOT a breeding farm, because they carry so many dangerous communicable diseases to other livestock/animals no farm is going to breed them for market.

""The threat of disease transmission from wild pigs to other animals is probably of greatest concern to the livestock industry. Several of these diseases are swine specific (both wild and domestic), but others can affect cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, horses, and several species of native wild mammals. Infectious diseases that are significant to livestock and other animals include

Pseudorabies Virus (PRV)
Swine brucellosis (Brucella suis)
Bovine tuberculosis (TB)
FADs
African swine fever
Classical swine fever (Hog Cholera)
Foot and Mouth Disease

Which even makes it more dangerous to use in dog food. How did they EVER convince the pet owners that Wild Boar should ever be fed to dogs!

Here is just one list of the zoonotic dangers of wild board/pigs. I.E. transferable diseases. Hunters are warned by the CDC of even touching these animals without gloves.

""Diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans are called zoonotic diseases. Many of these diseases are transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and handling or ingestion of infected tissues. Diseases can also be transmitted indirectly through contaminated water sources and possibly, through ticks. Zoonotic diseases transmissible by wild pigs include

Leptospirosis
Brucellosis
E. coli
Salmonellosis
Toxoplasmosis
Rabies
Swine Influenza viruses
Trichinosis
Giardiasis
Cryptosporidiosis

http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/diseases-wild-pigs-public-health.html

Pork carries far more diseases and transmittable diseases. Pigs do not sweat. Sweat glands are a tool the body uses to be rid of toxins. They Have a very short digestive tract so toxins stay in the body tissues. Everything they eat/toxins are stored in the fatty tissue parts of the meat.

There was and is a real reason that the bible suggests not to eat pork! :B

I am not Jewish but for these reasons "I" do not eat pork!!!

I'll see "wild boar" on a number of the grain-free dog food like Taste of the Wild. It's pork, though I guess maybe raised slightly different than domestic pigs? Or marketing lingo for pork.

Pawz4me wrote:
... a little bit of solid reason (that can usually easily be overcome) mixed with a lot of unsubstantiated myth...

Hee hee . . . . that seems to be what a great majority of "facts" are based on. :B

It's being used in more and more foods now. Off the top of my head -- I think Eagle Pack and Back to Basics have used pork in at least some of their products for a long time (as in many years). At least a couple of the Acana products have pork in them. Steve's Real Food has a pork based food. Several Science Diet products, including some of their "prescription" foods have pork in them. I suspect you'll start seeing it used more frequently as the demand increases more and more for "novel" protein products.

Trichinosis from raw or under cooked pork used to be a worry, as was the fat content of the cheaper cuts. But I think the idea that dogs and cats shouldn't be fed pork is like a lot of things--a little bit of solid reason (that can usually easily be overcome) mixed with a lot of unsubstantiated myth. There's also a theory that pork was shunned as a pet food ingredient for a long time because of propaganda from the beef industry.

our lhasa apso can't eat a lot of pork... loose bowels. he can handle a bite of sausage or small piece of ham but no more. on the other hand, he can eat cheap hotdogs without problems...go figure. :)