Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats Quotes

“Estimates are that 89 percent to 99 percent of the chemical intake into our body is from our food, and most of this is from foods high on the food chain: meat, poultry, eggs, fish, and dairy products.”—John McDougall, MD”
― Richard H. Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

“In the largest study ever done on humans, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2005 that most Americans carry more than 100 pesticides and toxic compounds in their tissues, especially compounds used in consumer products, many linked to potential health threats.”
― Richard H. Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

“How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?”
― Richard H. Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

“•Growth-promoting drugs and hormones. Farm animals are routinely given drugs (antibiotics) and hormones to hasten growth or to prevent health issues from the conditions in which they live. “Today, there are six anabolic steroids given, in various combinations, to nearly all animals entering conventional beef feedlots in the U.S. and Canada: three natural steroids (estradiol, testosterone, and progesterone), and three synthetic hormones (the estrogen compound zeranol, the androgen trenbolone acetate, and the progestin melengestrol acetate). Anabolic steroids are typically used in combinations. Measurable levels of all the above growth-promoting hormones are found at slaughter in the muscle, fat, liver, kidneys and other organ meats. The Food and Drug Administration has set ‘acceptable daily intakes’ (ADIs) for these animal drugs.”6 It is very likely these are affecting dogs and cats as well as people.”
― Richard H. Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

“You might assume that livestock with cancer or obvious infection would be rejected for all consumption. Not so. The part considered diseased (such as the abscess or tumor) is cut out, but the rest of the sick animal goes right on into human food. Guess where the abscess or tumor goes? Into pet food.”
― Richard H. Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats