Junk food killing pet cats and dogs FEATURE 04/12/2010

Junk food killing pet cats and dogs

FEATURE 04/12/2010 PARIS — The junk food and poor eating habits affecting humans is also killing their four-legged pals, say veterinary surgeons and experts. Allergies and obesity are reducing the life expectancy of Lassies and Mittens nourished worldwide on industrial foodstuffs, said Gerard Lippert, a Belgian acupuncturist for animals who has just completed a study on the diets of 600 dead dogs. “Pets, like humans, are victims of junk food,” he told AFP. Of the 600 furry corpses he examined “those fed on processed foods died three years earlier than those fed on food made in the home.”... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100412com6.html

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