Is the pet food "poisoning" affecting the UK at all?

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This story has been angering pet owners for months now, and the list of recalled foods keeps getting longer and longer.

I'm pretty grateful that my dog is on fresh turkey and veg, but she did get the Natural Balance biscuits, which I stopped feeding her after they did a recall on one of their foodstuffs.

It's just unbelievable.
 
How do you feed the turkey and veg, raw or cooked? Do you give bones too or any mixer? Do you add anything else like oil or vitamins or carbs? Did you get any nutrition advice? Just asking as it's something I'm thinking about
 
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Sorry did read the website story. What is the food being poisoned with exactly as it doesn't say.

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It's a substance called melamine, which is a plastic. The NY Times ran an article the other day saying that it's been used as a filler in pet food for years
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I am very fortunate to live near a superb holistic pet store, so I feed their tubs of fresh food (cooked on site, by the owner). This is what's in it:

Organic turkey breast, ginger, garlic, parsley, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, apple cider vinegar, omega 3 fish oil, flax seed, sea meal, slippery elm powder, blue/green algae, dried cranberry, taurine, bone meal, zinc, vitamin E, scorbate C, bee pollen, grapefruit seed extract, trace minerals, digestive enzymes, lecithin.

I also supplement with Dr. Goldstein's Health Nuggets . I'm not sure if they're available in the UK but they are wonderful.
 
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Well I wouldn't give them that - did you not know that blue algae is poisonous to dogs?

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Apparently it depends on the type of algae. They've been making this food for 25 years and have had no complaints. Taken from a Vital Life:

"I’ve heard that some algae is very toxic to animals. How is this algae different?

Many varieties of algae, especially those growing on the sides of stock tanks and in stock ponds are very hazardous to animals. Simplexity’s SBGA, harvested from Upper Klamath Lake, is documented by scientific methodologies to be 99.8% Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. This species of algae harvested from Upper Klamath Lake is not only nutritious but has been scientifically demonstrated through years of rigorous testing to be totally non-toxic. For nearly 10 years Simplexity products have exceeded every standard of purity established in the United States and Canada for nutritional supplements."
 
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