Thursday, October 16, 2008

If a person eats dog food or cat food will it cause health problems or will it be as healthy as

If a person eats dog food or cat food will it cause health problems or will it be as healthy as?
eating regular food. Since the dog food & cat food was made to give the dog or cat a well balanced meal. Will it also give a person a well balanced meal.
Biology - 6 Answers
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1 :
the food shouldn't cause health problems as dogs, cats, and humans all need the same minerals and vitamins. But we need them all in different amounts so it is not balanced for Humans. Just check the ingrediants first. But i dont recommend because they usually taste like crap.
2 :
The simple answer is no. Dogs and cats are primarily carnivores, so a well-balanced meal for them should not include nearly as much vegetation as a well-balanced meal for a human would. On top of that, there are so many different qualities of dog and cat food, and many of the lower-quality brands are mostly made out of corn and have very little real meat in them. A person probably could live off of dog or cat food, but they would not be very healthy.
3 :
It is not harmful in small amounts, but just as you said, it's made for the animal that is on the bag. It will not provide people with proper nutrition and will make a person sick if eaten long enough. I would advise against eating it at all.
4 :
It is not balanced to human requirements, but you could eat it and get most needed proteins and such However, eating it a few times would not cause any health problems. There are a few foods out there, however, that a human could eat on a daily basis (i.e. Blue Buffalo, By Nature) and subsist on.
5 :
Pet foods are designed to be balanced nutrition for dogs and cats, not humans. If you want to find out what they taste like give it a shot, there isn't anything in them that you can't eat. However, there isn't anything in pet foods that you would normally want to eat, these foods are made from stuff like intestines and lungs that people normally avoid.
6 :
Old people eat it, but not as a sole sustenance. Dogs and cats don't require the same percentage of vitamins and other things we need and also their bodies synthesize some of these vitamins. So we could probably survive for quite awhile, but eventually scurvy and other problems would set in

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