Your dog’s digestive system was designed to handle raw meat. After all, wild or zoo animals don’t eat cooked meat. We’ve been using raw meat for close to 20 years with fantastic results. Buy healthy selections of meat, always refrigerate or freeze, and follow recommended safe handling instructions on meat packaging. If you are still concerned, you can rinse meat in a solution of grapefruit seed extract or human-grade hydrogen peroxide mixed with water.

David: No. Humans do not have it in their physiological ability to take down a wild animal, kill it, and rip out its guts with their teeth like a carnivore. Humans are not biologically carnivorous nor are they omnivorous. Could you imagine yourself nude, barefoot, with no tools or fire, trying to tackle a wild animal, kill it, and eat its guts out?! Eating animals is not in our biology.

Yes. While there is a Biblical prohibition not to boil a young goat or sheep in its mother's milk, there is no such prohibition against eating milk and meat together. Choosing a correct interpretation is not a matter of arbitrarily picking between several equal options but requires intense study to discover the strengths and weeknesses of each argument. In the end the individual must make a decision based on their conscience and understanding.

Our teeth tell us that we should not eat much meat. Our molars and premolars are for grinding and crushing. Carnivores have teeth that are sharp and pointed, made to tear the flesh of other animals. Our saliva contains ptyalin and is alkaline for the digestion of starches. Carnivore's saliva is acid for the digestion of animal food. Our digestive system is 30 feet (10 metres) in length to allow the slow absorption of all the nutrients we eat.

In a nutshell, raw foodists eat: fresh, raw fruits and vegetables as well as seeds, nuts and some soaked or sprouted grains. There are unlimited recipes and dishes which are made from these ingredients, including: pates, loafs, "noodles", cakes, cookies, crackers, soups, salads and marinades. Raw Foodists do not have to eat only salads! Not usually. Some raw foodists in a transition period will choose to eat things like mahi tuna or steak tartar, but after awhile they usually stop.

This can be tricky, because you don't want kids to feel deprived or to reinforce their insistence on eating cooked food. So do it on a gradient. The best way is to make a lot of delicious raw dishes which they enjoy andwant to eat. Usually this means desserts at first. Raw desserts are made of healthy filling ingredients - usually it’s just fruits, spices, nuts, and dates or honey. so you can give them a piece of raw cake for dessert, for a snack, or even for a meal.

The concept of feeding dogs and cats on raw meat goes back into history. Unfortunately, when the domestic pet trade grew so rapidly the past few decades, most pet food manufacturers opted to go with the convenient methods of manufacturing, transportation and storage. Their emphasis was obviously more on satisfying their own interests and their customers' convenience and less on the nutritional needs of the animals.

If fresh table meat (using common in-home processing procedures) is fed without cooking, processing, or freezing, diseases such as toxoplasmosis and intermediate stages of parasites such as tapeworms could be transmitted. However... AFS' quality control methods include the instant freezing of products to a ?40 degrees F which deactivates such agents; both freezing and freeze-drying procedures used in product manufacturing eliminate bacterial growth, as well.

The first answer is: a lot! Each dog consumes 10-14,000 calories every day during the Iditarod. The dogs' metabolisms are great at burning fats as well as carbohydrates, so the foods eaten by the dogs are high in both. Protein is also essential to help the dogs maintain strong, firm muscles and a good coat. Most mushers feed a combination of high fat, high protein dry dog food plus raw meats and fats from sources including beef, horse, lamb, fish, seal, moose, and other wild game.

No, you shouldn't mix kibble with the raw meat mixture, as they digest at different rates. Raw food is much more digestible, taking only 3-4 hours, while the kibble usually takes 9-12 hours. Kibble is a cooked processed product that is harder for the dog to digest because the molecules are bound tighter together. When raw meat and kibble are mixed together the meat will digest, meanwhile leaving some of the kibble to rise to body temperature and ferment.

For a vegan sandwich or snack, go to a health food store. Supermarkets and coffee shop chains are now beginning to cater for vegans as well so are worth checking out.

It’s not a question of being “right” or “wrong.” If one wants fewer animals to suffer and die, then one can stop supporting such practices by not eating animal products.

Research to date indicates that the prions accumulate only in the brain, eyes, spinal cord, lymph nodes, tonsils, and spleen. Based on these findings, hunters should bone out their meat and consume only muscle tissue from harvested animals.

We all possess freedom of choice. In the past, traditional cultures honored the ways of nature and knew the importance of eating live and raw natural foods as a major component of their nutritional intake. I strongly recommend including as much raw, uncooked foods to your diet as possible. As mentioned before, these foods include vegetables and fruits, germinated and sprouted grains, nuts and seeds, alkalinizing juices, and some dehydrated and fermented foods.

Our cookies are designed to be baked first, then eaten. We do not recommend eating any raw cookie dough.

Some arrive by a path that involves a search for more natural, ethical and sustainable ways of living; a more compassionate way of life, as a natural extension of vegetarianism or veganism, or being ‘green'. Some sense the spiritual benefits, cleansing mind and body, with the widespread tradition of eating only or mainly raw fruit amongst wise men and women.

Yes, raw food is exactly what you should be eating if you're ill. Many illnesses come from lack of usable nutrition in the food you're eating, or an over stressed digestive system which is not doing it's job properly and is putting strain on the rest of the body, making you more likely to get sick. Eating raw allows your digestive system to clean itself out, and gives your body the nutrition it needs to rebuild and heal itself. However, you still have to use common sense.

Absolutely, you can feed your pet a vegetarian diet. But the most important thing you will need to remember, since your pet won't be getting any meat, is to feed high quality protein with the meals, just as you do. The amino acids in meat are essential nutrients, and if you're not feeding meat, your pet will get all the necessary amino acids from tofu, grains and beans. As you learn more about feeding a raw diet, you'll likely bump into many people who are totally against feeding grains.

This is one of the problems. Nowadays, the meat that you buy contains a lot of chemicals that you end up eating when you consume your favourite dish: Antibiotics and steroids in the feed to prevent infections and increase weight quickly. This has had the effect of causing the development of new disease breeding bacteria, resistant to many form of antibiotics and causing a threat to human life. Sex hormones such as androgens, progestogens and estrogens to promote faster growth.