Congratulations Sydney University Veterinary School, 33 years ago the whistle was blown against you and all other vet schools regarding the feeding of junk food to pets and the resultant brainwashing of vet students under your tutelage. Now you have published a 21-page article confirming multiple reasons why dogs—and by implication all carnivores—should rip, tear and gnaw at carcasses or raw meaty bones.
Congratulations, you can never again accept junk pet food company hush money, nor teach the cruel, fraudulent feeding of ultra-processed junk to carnivores.
Despite their important summation of the evidence, the University does unfortunately describe the feeding behaviour of carnivores as ‘chewing’. Maybe this absurdity serves to accommodate their sponsors’ promotion and sale of the artificial, diabolical ‘chew-toys’ and ‘dental chew stix’?
Cows, sheep, horses, camels and humans chew with a side-to-side motion. Carnivores rip, tear, gnaw and crunch with an up-and-down scissor action before swallowing or bolting chunks of ingesta.
But no matter the semantics, the University of Sydney cannot unscramble the egg or un-cook the goose. They confirm what they now know, and likely always did know, that carnivores must rip, tear and crunch at most if not every meal.
Our task is to get the perps into court and let their own words seal their fate—massive fines and jail-time. I say that they’re guilty as charged as are the world’s other vet schools, vet associations and regulatory bodies.
Barfers, prey modellers and RAW (Righteous And Wrong) merchants that push processed recipes should be paraded before the courts too. The widespread animal cruelty and consumer fraud must end.
It’s way past time to honour the fundamental birthright of all carnivores, whether wild, feral or domestic.
