How Americans Decided Dogs Can’t Eat Grains
A new warning about dog food underscores a problem with certain diets that goes beyond pets.
Although she is very special to me, Midge, my three-year-old rescue Chihuahua, is not all that special in general. She’s the average weight for her size. She has no known medical problems, besides anxiety, which is probably rational given that she’s eight inches tall. Nothing I’ve ever fed her has seemed to irritate her tiny little tummy.
Nevertheless, I feed her only grain-free dog food. The kind I give her costs about $100 a month (for a 12-pound dog!), and it’s made of an organic, grass-fed, non-GMO mix of beef, organ meat, and bone, all of which is processed with spinach and blueberry and freeze-dried into a patty the size of a Popeye’s biscuit. Twice a day, I break up one and a
