Nearly every dog in the country is fed commercial dog food (few people have the time and money to prepare food for their dog), and with few exceptions, those dogs seem to live a healthy life. My last dog lived to be 14 (pretty good for a 70 lb shepherd mix) and lived entirely on commercial dry dog food. (but it wasn't cheap grocery store food)
But with any dry pet food, you have to be careful to make sure the animal drinks enough water to stay properly hydrated. I think most pets in the US are probably at least partially dehydrated their entire lives, and they don’t know it nor do their humans.
IMO, if you’re not doing your due diligence to confirm what feeding regimes are good for your pet, then you are committing a crime.
If not- I'd be interested to hear some scientific support that dry food isn't good for dogs. Last I talked to my vet he was happy with the commercial dry food my dog was eating- but if that isn't the consenus I'd like to know some more.
It isn’t veterinarians spreading this advice. My vet recommended against it.
I would guess that for every person doing raw diets right, there are five screwing it up.
It’s really nonsense un-actionable advice and it doesn’t actually align with what veterinary professionals tell you to do.
You didn’t even recommend which food I should be buying or making. You just told me to put my tinfoil hat on.
I’m doing what my vet told me to do. Why should I listen to people without veterinary degrees?