high dollar pet foods linked to heart disease.

Way too many people. The FDA is completely infiltrated by the industries it's supposed to be regulating, and nearly everything they "recommend" is suspect, but most people don't understand that and think they're eating healthy, taking medicines that will make them better, etc.

The thing that's screwed up about dog food is that the dog food manufacturers successfully lobbied to not have to include complete nutritional information, specifically the information about carbohydrates. Dogs aren't supposed to eat a bunch of carbs/sugar, so nearly every manufactured food is bad for them. Look at the bag, it'll stay something like 10% protein, 20% fat, but they leave off the carbs. The math is easy enough, but since they don't have to list it you have no idea how much is sugar, soluble fiber, or insoluble fiber.

 

People don't actually seek out the FDA directly, but the information they produce and validate gets disseminated as gospel through all the various news, social media, "studies", education programs, advertising, and so on. I can remember learning about the food pyramid in something like second grade, and that thing is/was total bullshit.

 

You mean the crazy dog ladies that are promoting homeopathic this that and crystals?

 

In that case, let me have the final word on human nutrition. Eat whatever the hell you want, but do it in moderation.

 

Don't forget CBD oil

 

I used to think that the CBD hype was just a backdoor plot to get recreational weed legalized. Then I finally gave in and started taking it (really just to shut my wife up about it)

Damned if my knees & hips don't feel a whole helluva lot better. My elbow is still jacked, but I don't think that there's any hope for it short of amputation.

 

I won't argue that it isn't useful for anything, as there have definitely been studies that show some benefits, and the placebo effect is a hell of a thing so I'm sure it helps plenty of people that way also... I'm just sick of people who act like its the second coming of jesus and recommend it for everything from psoriasis to broken bones to strokes.
I saw a video (that was just supposed to be a cute video) the other day going around of a dog who had a similar condition to the fainting goats where he'd get excited and just lock up and fall over... I'll be damned if half the comments weren't "I bet CBD oil would do wonders for him."