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Fresh foods fed in variety are without question the perfect form of nutrition. Appropriately designed supplements to help reduce the risk of food-borne pathogens and oxidation, and to help balance high meat meals and provide a spectrum of vegetable-based nutrients and nutraceuticals can also be of great benefit. Anything less than this is a compromise. The next best alternative is packaged dried raw foods that have incorporated in them food technology to impede pathogens, parasites and oxidation. The low water activity of these products is a great inhibitor of pathogens and the low level of moisture make storage and shipping efficient and environmentally friendly. Good quality table scraps and properly designed dried extruded and canned foods can be mixed into the diet rotation with benefit as well.

Consumers must learn the principles of fresh foods fed in variety and to trust in nature. Every pet owner desires the best for a beloved pet, and is correct in thinking food is an essential element in achieving that goal. But it is incorrect to believe that another person can do more for their pet's health than they can do themselves. All that is required is a little understanding and use of common sense.

[ NOTE: To that end, the Wysong Institute makes available a free e-Health Letter, a free one-hour CD entitled, "The Thinking Person's Master Key To Health," healthy product alternatives designed intelligently with health as the number one objective, and books and recipes for anyone wanting to take control of their own and their family's and pet's health. See www.wysonginstitute.org ]

SRF Response – Wysong is not making money on free letters, they are making money on commercial pet food we believe is inferior to our raw food diets. I feel I know because I have done it their way as a Board Member, President, CFO and Controller for more than 8 pet food companies for the past 30 years before seeing the light and helping to introduce SRF for Pets. Pet owners producing their own diets are fine. The problem is, to completely meet the needs of your pet, one should make a formula that is complete and balanced using raw food nutrients and research on the vitamin and mineral content of those items. We are adding value doing this for pet owners who do not have the desire to run a five horse grinder in a sterile kitchen making a diet that is very convenient to measure out and feed.

The objective of Wysong is not to just “make money,” as SRF implies. We also do not believe that SRF can identify even one company, let alone eight, that fits the description they outline above. With regard to Wysong products being inferior to theirs, that simply cannot be true. The Wysong “product” is a method of feeding, not “a product,” that incorporates dried, canned, and raw TNT™ packaged products, plus supplements backed by thousands of scientific studies, plus owner supplied fresh foods from the grocer and table. To any thinking person, that is better than relying on a SRF singular so-called complete and balanced food.

Which brings us back to the mantra by SRF about their “complete and balanced” foods. This, as repeatedly pointed out, presumes SRF actually knows what complete nutrition is. In fact, the science of nutrition is nowhere near completed with full knowledge gained, anymore than any other science is completed. What we know is puny compared to what remains to be known. No person should trust any food as a constant source of nutrition, much less from any supplier making the claim that they have complete knowledge of anything.  Nor should that trust be extended if the company demonstrates (as SRF does) that they do not even have a good understanding of the current relevant sciences.  Additionally, since SRF attempts to get you to buy their products by spreading false, exaggerated, and libelous claims about other products and companies, there is no reason to believe the accuracy of what they say about their own products.