Need raw beef

I'm off today to find some raw meat for the dogs. I really need to find a good supplier of preferably organic beef. I also need some bones for their teeth, it is amazing what raw bones can do for their pearly whites. Dogs were meant to eat raw eat; it has enzymes in it that cooked or processed food does not.

I have yet to feed raw chicken, it just seems to be a more delicate act trying to be sure that it is fresh. But I know lots of people do feed raw chicken, I'm just not there yet. Dogs have a great ability to deal with bacteria and a dog that is not immune compromised can eat stuff that we can't.

Take wolves for instance, they stash their food away for later use. If we ate that same meat we'd probably die, if we could ever get it past our noses that is.

Taken from USAtoday.com

Predators and scavengers can eat rotted meat thanks to a germ-hostile digestive system. All vertebrate predators have remarkably similar systems: a short pipe — six times the body length — with a bulge (the stomach) in the middle.

Because it's short, food doesn't stay long in the gut. Bacteria have little time to multiply and cause problems. The stomach, moreover, brews a vicious batch of hydrochloric acid that not only dissolves gobbled meat and fat but also kills most bacteria and other microorganisms.

"Practically the whole gastrointestinal tract of a carnivore is sterile," says Barry Groves, British nutritional scientist.

Rotting meat is rich in protein, amino acids, fat, lipid components, and minerals. Scavengers usually find dead meat soon after a kill so it loses little nutritional value. Eating rotted meat helps the species to survive.

"Hunger will drive most animals to feed on what's available," says Dan Stahler, project biologist with the Yellowstone Gray Wolf Restoration Program, National Park Service. "These meat eaters can handle a high bacterial load due to their short digestive system and appropriate digestive enzymes and acids."

So can we. In Europe, people "regularly hang beef three weeks in a fridge before eating it," says Groves. Inuits leave fish to rot for months. By then, according to the anthropologist and Arctic explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, it has the consistency of ice cream. "At first repelled, he grew to like it," says Groves.