Quick Start Guide on Cat Nutrition
- Journal of the American Veterinary Association, 1 December 2002 (Volume 221, Number 11), Timely Topics in Nutrition, “The Carnivore Connection to Nutrition in Cats“, Debra L. Zoran
- The TC Feline website – too many wonderful essays and articles to summarize here; this is an absolutely indispensable treasure trove of credible information by a pioneer in raw cat food feeding world
- Terri Grow’s wonderful synopsis on “10 Cat Food Myths“
- Raising Cats Naturally, by Michelle Bernard
- Feeding Your Cat: Know the Basics of Feline Nutrition, by Lisa Pierson, DVM
- Your Cat: Simple Secrets to a Longer, Stronger Life, by Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins
- Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins’ online material on links between feline diet, diabetes, and obesity.
- Dr. Bruce Syme on five tell-tale signs of poor pet nutrition.
- Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food, by Ann N. Martin and Michael W. Fox (New Sage Press)
- Letter to Tim Loughton, MP, from Chrissie Nicholls, Head of Information and Media Services, British Veterinary Association, 15 December 2004
- What the information on pet food labels tells you and what it doesn’t tell you: A Cook College Pet Seminar, April 10, 1994, by David A. Dzanis, DVM, Ph.D., DACVN, Center for Veterinary Medicine
- Chapman University, Identification of Meat Species in Pet Foods Using a Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Tara A. Okuma and Rosalee S. Hellberg – this research at a food science program used DNA to identify the meat contained in commercial dog and cat food and found that nearly 40 percent of the products had a meat that wasn’t listed on the label. Of the 52 samples, 20 were apparently mislabeled and one had an unidentifiable meat ingredient
- Important information you could be misreading on the pet food label, Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
- FDA information for consumers on marketing a pet food product