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I know that rice is a common dog food ingredient, but I have read that rice often contains arsenic. As far as I understand, any field that was once used for growing cotton and now grows rice will contain arsenic, because arsenic was applied to the fields as a pesticide/fungicide and never leaves the soil unless the soil itself is removed and replaced with new soil. I still eat rice but only occassionally, so I wonder if the arsenic levels would build up to dangerous levels in a small dog who eats a little bit of arsenic in EVERY meal. Ironically, any time I have fed my dog boiled organic chicken and rice he only eats the chicken and will leave the rice all over the floor. Maybe somehow he knows. 🙂 Any thoughts on this?
While the FDA says the levels are low, I still wouldn’t feed a rice-based food everyday. Has there actually been a study done on dogs that have eaten rice long term? I love rice but only eat it once or twice a week now. I’m too scared to eat it any more than that. So much of our food is so bad for us now 🙁
The rice issue seems over blown. Throughout the world billions of humans consume rice as a staple part of their diet. It is disappointing that DFA does not rate any food with rice in it over 4 stars because of the potential of arsenic. A quality food made with humane grade meat that uses human grade brown rice as the main binding agent should be considered of the same caliber as 5 star food with white potato.
In my opinion human grade brown rice should be considered a quality ingredient that is not red flagged.
Actually, the fact that a food contains rice isn’t part of the rating system. It’s the amount of meat that affects the score. Just as an example, Canidae Single Grain Protein Plus received 5 stars although they are no longer making that particular food.
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