Nature’s Logic has distinguished itself from all other natural pet foods by excluding all chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals or trace nutrients from all of its product categories. With its special ingredient selection and formulas, Nature’s Logic not only meets, but exceeds almost every minimum requirement for amino acids, vitamins, and minerals listed in The Association of American Feed Control Official’s (AAFCO) Nutrient Profile for Dogs and Cats.

“A feed or ingredient derived solely from plant, animal or mined sources, either in its unprocessed state or having been subject to physical processing, heat processing, rendering, purification, extraction, hydrolysis, enzymolysis or fermentation, but not having been produced by or subject to a chemically synthetic process and not containing any additives or processing aids that are chemically synthetic except in amounts as might occur unavoidable in good manufacturing practices.”

Under the AAFCO Guidelines for Natural Claims, any pet product “using the term “natural” is only accepted in reference to the product as a whole when all of the ingredients and components of ingredients meet the definition above.” The guidelines further state “the use of the term natural is false and misleading if any chemically synthesized ingredients are present in the product”. Since almost every vitamin and mineral added to pet foods, even in products marketed as natural products, are not natural but are chemically synthesized forms, AAFCO will only allow a product to be called natural when a “disclaimer is used to inform the consumer that the vitamins, minerals or other trace minerals are not natural.” The most common disclaimer used on pet food packaging panels is, “Natural with added vitamins, minerals, and other trace nutrients”. This is supposed to inform consumers that this particular product does not contain natural vitamins, minerals, and trace nutrients, but contains chemically synthesized forms.

With only a small amount of research, it can be discovered that many of the added chemically synthesized vitamin and mineral supplements added to both human foods and animal foods are derived from substances such as coal tar or by-products or co-products of industrial metal products. Further research will reveal several past recalls found on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website of mineral feed supplements due to dioxin contamination. Probably the greatest source of information on these chemically synthesized products can be found in studies by the National Academy of Sciences in two books titled, “Vitamin Tolerance of Animals” and “Mineral Tolerance of Domestic Animals”. Both books emphasize not the essentiality or metabolism of these products but the potential adverse effects of them on animals. A segment in the books is dedicated to the effects of each chemically synthesized vitamin and mineral determined by studies conducted on hundreds of animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, cattle, sheep, chickens, turkey, rats, mice, swine, horses, and numerous other animals. The effects found are anything from no adverse effect to death and including vomition, rapid respiration, fever, diarrhea, intestinal ulcers, anemia, liver degeneration, renal failure, kidney calcification, increased urinary oxalate, anorexia, cardiovascular mineralization, resorption of fetuses, and numerous other health issues. Many of these products were designed not with the intent to have them consumed in every meal, in every food, treat, and supplement, but to be used to supplement and correct the deficiencies in natural animal feedstuff predominantly fed to food animals for a limited time and then slaughtered. What has potentially become a health issue is that these chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals, and trace nutrients are fed to our pets in every meal of every day, and in many cases these same pets are also given treats and additional supplements containing very high levels of the same.

This has also been carried over into the human food chain. It is extremely difficult to purchase at food stores any cereal, processed grain flour, milk, or bread without these chemically synthesized supplements added. Is there a possible connection between the inclusion of these products to our food chain and the 20 million Americans with kidney disease? Humans are also potentially over exposed to these chemically synthesized supplements, too. For example, when in the course of a day one eats a breakfast cereal claiming 100% of the RDA of many vitamins and minerals using these synthetics and poured on top with milk fortified with chemically synthesized supplements, and in addition, also takes chemically synthesized multiple vitamin pills, along with many other synthetically fortified foods, including orange juice, etc.

There is virtually no danger of overdose of vitamins and minerals when these nutrients are derived solely from all natural whole foods. Nature’s Logic has carefully chosen special food ingredients that supply needed vitamins and minerals solely from nutritious meats, poultry, fish, eggs, and numerous concentrates of fruits and vegetables. By doing this, Nature’s Logic diets exceed all AAFCO recommended minimums on amino acids and exceed almost all recommended minimums on vitamins and minerals. Nature’s Logic contains only 100% natural food ingredients with no chemically synthesized vitamins or minerals. In nature, dogs and cats are meat eating predators, what scientists call carnivores. When wild dogs or cats consume their prey they eat the entire animal, including hair, bones, entrails, blood, stomach contents, etc. Their prey is often herbivores, or plant eating animals. Predators obtain essential trace nutrients available only from plants by consuming the stomach and intestinal contents, which are partially digested plant materials, of their prey. Cats are “obligate carnivores,” which means their diet must be made up primarily of meat. Nevertheless, even these meat eating animals still obtain essential nutrients from small amounts of plant derived foods. Nature’s Logic pet foods are formulated in a similar way. They are primarily made up of meats and other animal-derived products, but they contain small amounts of selected high quality plant products that provide essential and natural nutrition without the addition of chemically synthesized nutrients. Carnivores in the wild are never exposed to chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals, or trace nutrients. Nature’s Logic is formulated the way a truly natural diet should be, which is the logic behind Nature’s Logic pet foods.