The Dog Food Revolution You're Not Supposed to Know
"We spent a year formulating a food that is truly complete, truly balanced, truly vet-approved, and 100% plant-based."
– Virtuous Vittles Founder
Discover how your dog can thrive on a plant-based diet, straight from the experts behind Virtuous Vittles. This is not just another dog food brand—it's a mission-driven movement powered by science, compassion, and nutrition.
"We are AAFCO-compliant and go above and beyond the standards."
– Virtuous Vittles Founder
🎧 Podcast Highlights
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The truth about meat in commercial dog foods
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Why plant-based dog food is not only possible—but optimal
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Backed by veterinary nutritionists and scientific studies
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Virtuous Vittles' unique approach to whole food ingredients
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How this brand meets AAFCO nutritional standards
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Debunking myths about vegan diets for dogs
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The urgent ethical and environmental reasons for switching
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Dogs as omnivores: the science behind plant-based digestion
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Behind the scenes of formulating a savory, balanced gravy
🎯 Join the Revolution
Give your dog what they truly deserve: health, compassion, and flavor—all in one bowl.
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This is so easy, I love how you
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can just cut this open, lickety-split, boom,
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there you have it.
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This is their fave, like I said, these
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fish have 100% plant-based.
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There's my sundae, eating a virtuous vittles, she
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just loves it, check that out.
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Here's sundae on the right, and Wednesday on
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the left, chowing down on their virtuous vittles,
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they just love it.
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You can see, they are just, mmm, just
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look at them eating away.
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Here's my Wednesday, she is eating, loving, there
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she is gobbling down her virtuous vittles.
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And here is one of your biggest fans,
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Wednesday Velez Mitchell, who loves virtuous vittles, and
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I have to tell you, my other dog,
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as you saw, does as well.
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So we're gonna be talking virtuous vittles today,
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I stumbled upon this product at an event
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where somebody, one of these fabulous co-founders,
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handed me a box, and I went home
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without much of any expectation, put it in
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a bowl, and oh my God, my dogs
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went crazy.
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They, I believe, they think it's meat, but
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it's not, it's 100% plant-based.
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So we've got the co-founders here today,
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we're so excited, let's start with Brianna Schweitzer.
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Wow, what makes this product so meaty, and
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makes the dogs dive in thinking that they're
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actually consuming meat when it's 100% vegan?
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Yeah, well, so we do actually, we're the
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first and only on the market with a
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meaty morsels and gravy.
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So we make a plant-based meat, and
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we chop it up, and we put it
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in a delicious, hearty gravy with also a
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bunch of fresh vegetables.
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And it was developed over the course of
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collaborating with one of, with my, with Ziggy,
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my little one, we really like looked at
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what Ziggy loved to eat.
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I watched him carefully with all sorts of
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different ingredients.
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We also built it foundationally from whole foods,
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looking at the nutrients in each ingredient and
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how they would contribute to what he really
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needed.
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And so I think all of those things
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together just really make it irresistible to them.
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You know, dogs can taste quality.
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Yes, and over the course of the show,
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we are going to actually open a case
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and show you the little nuggets inside.
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I believe they are made from seitan, which
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is also known as wheat meat, Brianna, but
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correct me if I'm wrong.
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Yes, it's a, it's a, it's a version
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of, so vital wheat gluten, which is 90
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% protein and a very, has a really
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great amino acid profile, very similar to meat.
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We mix that with some pea protein and
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with yeast proteins in order to get a
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balanced blend.
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So it's like seitan, it's very close, but
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a little bit different.
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Wow.
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This is so exciting.
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Now, how did you two powerhouse women come
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together?
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I know you're longtime friends and you have
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somebody who's really good in the kitchen, Brianna,
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and then you're an attorney and a startup
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expert.
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Wow.
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My head's exploding.
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Tell me all about it, Elizabeth.
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So Brianna and I have known each other
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for over 20 years, like almost 25 years.
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the phone and she had been working on
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this for some time and it was so
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exciting.
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She, you know, she just had come up
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with a formulation and we just started getting
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together and said, you know, we need to
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get this out.
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So this was like several years ago.
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canning because we, we figured out what is
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the most sustainable way we can market this
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and put into a packaging.
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We didn't want to do fresh frozen because,
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you know, all of the environmental aspects of
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having to keep it cold and frozen and
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all of that.
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We wanted something that was shelf stable, that
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was, you know, that was whole foods that
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could seal in all of the delicious nutrients
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without having to do a lot of processing.
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And so she actually went and got a
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canning machine and tried it at home.
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And then we sent it out to friends
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to make sure that that wouldn't affect the
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taste of what, what she'd already come up
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with.
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And then we were like, let's do this.
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And it took us so long to find
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a co-manufacturer that had, could do it
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human grade.
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They could do it with a whole food
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ingredients that could handle the texture of the
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meat and then still also be able to
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scale up as we grew.
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So we were, it was a hard work,
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it's a passion project and we're so excited
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we've gotten here and we just launched.
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All right.
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Well, I gotta tell you, you've got some
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fans in this audience.
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There it is.
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You can see that it looks meaty and
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I'm going to also show you one of
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the number one fans.
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This is my dog, Sunday, my incredible rescue.
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She's very smart, but she's also quite finicky.
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Wednesday, she's just, you know, put it in
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front of me, but this one is a
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discerning connoisseur and she loves virtuous fiddles.
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Don't you, my dear.
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Okay.
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I'm going to let you run along.
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Now, what I really like about it also
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is look at this packaging.
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You have sustainability in mind and tell us
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a little bit about the connection between climate
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change and the consumption of meat by dogs.
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I have heard wild statistics, like if dogs
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were their own country, they'd be the fifth
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largest meat eating country in the world.
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I don't have independent confirmation, but I know
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Lisbeth and Brianna.
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Brianna, you have some hard stats on that.
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I think it's very important because people, if
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you're vegan and you're feeding your dog a
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human's worth amount of meat, you're kind of
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undercutting yourself and self-sabotaging.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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So a stat that I didn't even know
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when we first started is that 25%
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of the meat proteins in this country are
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consumed by our cats and dogs, which is
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just a mind-blowing number.
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You're totally right.
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The stat is that a 50-pound dog
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eats about the same amount of meat per
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year as the average American, and we all
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know that Americans are extremely heavy meat eaters
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on average.
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So it's really a striking amount of savings
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that you can get just from switching.
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Going vegan is, aside from not having children,
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which is actually the number one thing you
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can do to affect climate change, but which
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obviously changes one's lives quite a lot.
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The second largest thing you can do is
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changing from a meat-based diet to a
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plant-based diet, and that goes same for
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humans as for dogs.
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So it's really, really impactful.
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Just a huge, huge savings.
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I calculated that switching my 10-pound chihuahua,
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Ziggy, who's also quite picky and was inspiration
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for this, to a plant-based diet from
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a conventional canned meat-based diet saves basically
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an equivalent of flying around the world per
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year in CO2 emissions.
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So it's really, really striking.
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Yeah, and I want to say that I've
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been looking into this.
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It's a fascinating story.
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You can learn all about it by going
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to virtuousvittles.com.
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Their story, which we're going to dive into
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more, is on there.
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Also, they've got this bountiful land for dogs
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sampler pack for $20.
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Now, this is a perfect way to introduce
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yourself and your dog to this because you're
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investing 20 bucks.
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I got to tell you, I was handed
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these two packets at a party, and I
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went home, like I said, and I didn't
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have any expectation, and my dogs gobbled it
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up, and I was like, whoa, and it
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really is the chunks that are in there
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plus the sauce.
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It has a meaty flavor.
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I'm joking sort of when I say, don't
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tell your dogs it's not meat.
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They don't know it's not meat.
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So tell us about, I want to go
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way back to when you first started this.
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You're a vegan.
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You love animals.
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You're cooking in the kitchen, but you're struggling
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to get your dog, Ziggy, to eat the
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vegan dog food.
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Pick up the story from there.
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Yes, so I've been plant-based since I
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was 12, and I one day decided I
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didn't want to eat animals, kill them anymore.
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Within a year, I read Animal Liberation and
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became vegan.
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So I've even had vegan cats for three
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years, quite a long time ago.
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It's a very intensive process to do that,
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and you have to really pay attention to
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what you're feeding them when you home cook
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their meals.
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So anyway, life got busy.
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We've gone back to conventional food in the
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house, and then I got my first dog
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about 10 years ago, and I would buy
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conventional food when I was too busy to
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cook for him.
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And so about four or five years ago,
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I just said, okay, this is enough.
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Let's go with a purely plant-based diet,
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never use the conventional food, and we tried
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everything on the market.
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opinionated, and I just struggled with the canned
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foods that were on the market.
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But I would cook an Impossible or a
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Beyond burger, and he would be all over
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me, or I'd make a delicious homemade meal
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for him, and he'd be all over it.
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So it wasn't about plant-based.
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It was really that we just thought that
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it wasn't for his taste buds, at least.
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So that was the genesis, and that's how
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we started our collaboration with him.
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I don't know if you got the actual
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package open.
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I'd like to show people.
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I want to show people what's in there,
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because what happened to me was when I
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saw it, can you open it?
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Yeah, yep.
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Open it, because when I saw it, and
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I was like, what makes this different?
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And then I really started looking, and there
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were these little chunks.
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That's what they want, those little chunks.
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Now, there is incredible nutrition.
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I'm going to play a clip from a
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doctor.
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While you get that ready, I'm going to
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play a clip from a doctor, Dr. Sarah
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Dodd, who is an expert in plant-based
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nutrition for dogs.
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She's written numerous published papers on this subject.
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Let's hear what she has to say.
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We actually see there's a number of therapeutic
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diets that are plant-based that are intended
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to manage a number of conditions.
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and some dietary sensitivities that can be resolved
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with switching to a plant-based product or
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a therapeutic product.
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We also see, for example, conditions like liver
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disease and in some cases kidney disease that
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can benefit as well from particularly the plant
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-based proteins and the different kind of fatty
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acid profiles that are available in plant-based
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diets.
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One of the mantras is nutrients matter, not
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meat.
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Explain.
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Exactly.
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It's very different when we talk about feeding
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companion animals.
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In the USA, there is an organization called
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the Association of American Feed Control Officials, and
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they set the standard for the industry on
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what sort of nutrient profile we want to
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look for.
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When we're feeding a plant-based diet to
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dogs, it's really no different from the essential
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nutrient perspective than it is feeding an animal
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-based diet.
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In fact, if you go and look at
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the ingredient list on a number of products
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out there, you'll see a lot of the
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nutrients are already coming from plant-based ingredients
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or non-animal ingredients.
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Feeding a plant-based diet that meets that
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same essential nutrient profile really doesn't have much
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of a difference.
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The ingredients are different, but the nutrients aren't
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different.
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It's really focusing on providing that essential nutrition
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regardless of where the ingredients are coming from.
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Wow.
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That was a great explanation.
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We really don't have to be afraid of
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this.
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It's just like the general public.
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We're not getting the information about the value
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of plant-based foods, human or animal, because
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mainstream media is controlled by its advertisers.
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Who are the advertisers?
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Big meat, big dairy, big pharma.
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All the positive advantages of plant-based are
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simply ignored.
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That's why we started Unchained TV.
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I was in the mainstream media for 35
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years.
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I've been behind the curtain.
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I know what it's like.
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That's why we really try to show people
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that plant-based nutrition is a completely valid
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thing.
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Don't listen to all the hysteria because there's
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a lot of false information out there, what
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I call alternative facts.
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Take it away.
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Show us, Brianna, the actual chunks that make
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this so salivating for dogs.
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There we go.
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I put some out on a plate.
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There's chunks of veggies in here too, but
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I'll pull out a little meaty chunk.
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Stick it right in the camera so people
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can see.
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Let's see if I can see.
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Yeah, that's okay.
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You realize it's a little sloppy, but this
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is what it is.
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There it is.
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That's the little chunk.
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That is the chunk that the dogs, right?
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What you were saying, and it's human grade.
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I see you- Yeah, it's human graded.
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It's pretty good.
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I mean, it's made for a dog's taste
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buds and flavor profile.
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It's not very salty.
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It's not very spicy, but it really has
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a rich umami flavor and it's totally safe
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for you to eat.
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It's human grade, made in a human grade
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facility with human grade ingredients.
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So- Yeah.
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And so I'm just wondering how you hit
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on this jackpot because I know so many
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people have been trying it.
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And you know, listen, I love all the
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vegan dog food products.
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Like I'm friends with V-Dog and their
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kibble and their treats.
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My dogs gobble them up.
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And ditto for Wild Earth is incredible.
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Incredible kibble.
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But this is a unique product.
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It's not an either or.
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It's an and.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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And that's how I approach it because I
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feed my dogs V-Dog and I feed
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them Wild Earth and I feed them a
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Halo and all sorts of other plant-based
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treats.
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I mean- They're spoiled.
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Okay.
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I'm a helicopter dog parent.
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But this is a unique product that is
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different than every other product on the market
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because it's like taking your dogs to the
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Four Seasons cuisine wise.
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Thank you.
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We've heard that.
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We've heard that it's elevated dog food.
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So that's a direct quote from one of
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our customers.
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And yeah, we are like, we are all
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about variety.
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We're so glad that there's a good number
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of people in the market already.
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It's, you know, dogs just like us.
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They want variety and to be able to
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have different textures and flavors in their lives.
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So we love, you know, we're just, we're
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joining a community and we're happy to be
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here.
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Yeah.
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And I want to go to some of
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the comments.
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Now, Nilo Far Asgarian says, I have 400
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pounds of rescued dogs distributed in four rescue
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dogs.
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So she's got four rescues.
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I use natural balance, vegan formula.
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Is your product affordable?
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So let's talk about affordability for a second.
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Yeah.
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Who wants to hit that?
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We could probably add on to it a
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little bit.
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I can start.
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So we worked hard to try and make
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this as affordable as possible, but I mean,
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we are going up against 20 subsidized, 25
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cents a pound chicken that's on the market.
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And so, you know, we, and we wanted
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to have a human grade.
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We wanted to have healthy.
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I mean, in the more, I mean, we've
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gotten as many organic ingredients as we could
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from a price perspective, as many GMO ingredients
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that we could.
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So we, you know, one box is $7.
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If you get a subscription, you can get
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that down.
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And then we also have 20% off
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of the first shipment and all the shipping
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is free.
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So you've got to keep that in mind.
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We don't add that to your order.
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And then you can also use it for
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a topper.
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You know, if you don't want to use
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just all Bert's Bittles or just all wet
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foods, you can use this as a topper
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on kibble.
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And we think it's a really healthy alternative.
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And anything that you can do to reduce
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your meat consumption, anything you can do to
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give your dog more wet food and whole
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food ingredients is going to be a plus.
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I want to jump in.
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We got a comment from Melissa Cromwell and
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we welcome all comments.
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This is not a judgment against your comment,
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but this is what I would call misinformation.
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She says, I thought dogs and cats were
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meat eaters.
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This diet couldn't be healthy for them.
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Not natural way of thing.
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Now, we had, we just had the vet
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on a veterinarian talking about how it's the
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nutrients.
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It's not the meat.
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It's the nutrients.
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And here's what we're talking about there.
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More than 90% of food allergies in
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dogs, Melissa.
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And, you know, we appreciate you coming on
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and asking questions and challenging us, but more
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than 90% of food allergies in dogs
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are caused by animal-based proteins like beef,
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dairy, and chicken, not plant ingredients.
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Brianna, do you want to expand on that?
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I'd love to.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's such a common misconception.
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So dogs are in fact, nutritional omnivores.
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Wolves are also nutritional omnivores, although their diet
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consists of more meat than the average, than
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dogs certainly need or is good for them.
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So dogs have co-evolved, our domesticated dogs
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have co-evolved with us for 40,000
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years.
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And we definitely know that plant-based diets
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are more healthy for humans.
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Because they've co-evolved with us, their genetics
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have actually evolved alongside ours.
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So where wolves have two points on their
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genetic, on their two alleles is what they're
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called in their genetics that are used to
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direct starch digestion.
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Humans have 22 and domesticated dogs have, I
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forget the exact numbers, but it's like 14
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to 22.
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So they're really much more like us.
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They can digest starches and plant-based materials
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quite easily.
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But moreover, it's really that it is about
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the nutrients, not where the specific ingredients are
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coming from, whether they're animal-based or plant
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-based.
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Plant-based nutrients are just as bioavailable.
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And they also come with a lot of
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benefits that meat-based ingredients don't have.
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For instance, a lot of the antibiotics and
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stuff that goes into our meat production is
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not found in a clean plant-based protein.
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All right.
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And we're going to go back to the
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doctor, Dr. Sarah Dodd.
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Again, a very well-known, renowned veterinarian who's
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written numerous papers on dog food in general
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and plant-based dog food specifically.
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Here she is talking about nutrients.
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Now, I also wanted to ask you about
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the ingredients and the nutrients in virtuous vittles.
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Let's take a look and give us a
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breakdown on this.
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Sure.
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So virtuous vittles contains plant-based protein exclusively.
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So there is no animal protein in it.
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And yet we're still meeting the same essential
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amino acid requirements and the total protein requirements.
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Not only meeting, but greatly exceeding those that
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are required by dogs.
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And yet it is entirely plant-based.
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And we can see that there's other kind
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of beneficial aspects.
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So the fatty acid profile, for example, we
524
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,540
have our balanced omega-6 and omega-3
525
00:21:09,540 --> 00:21:10,400
fatty acids.
526
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,900
We have naturally sourced vitamins that are coming
527
00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,780
from our plant-based ingredients.
528
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,300
So they're highly bioavailable and readily absorbed and
529
00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:20,300
useful for the system.
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00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,640
Same with the minerals.
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We have like a seaweed-derived calcium as
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00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,580
opposed to synthetic calciums being added.
533
00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,400
And so we can see that there's great
534
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,200
benefits from providing these natural plant-based nutrients.
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For our pets.
536
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,920
And the proof is in the pudding.
537
00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:41,300
This is Sunday and she's been on a
538
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,440
plant-based diet for more than two years.
539
00:21:43,580 --> 00:21:44,640
And let me tell you something.
540
00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:46,880
This is one bundle of energy.
541
00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:50,300
We run and walk a mile and a
542
00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:51,280
half every day.
543
00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:53,020
You chase balls, you fetch.
544
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,260
And she's as healthy as they come.
545
00:21:56,340 --> 00:21:58,400
And she goes to the vet regularly and
546
00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:59,340
they confirm that.
547
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,940
So here she is living proof, just like
548
00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:03,620
with humans.
549
00:22:03,620 --> 00:22:06,240
And one of the things that I want
550
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,220
to mention is that there is this whole
551
00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:11,660
myth about the caveman.
552
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,820
You mentioned that domestication of dogs is one
553
00:22:14,820 --> 00:22:16,680
of the hallmarks of human civilization.
554
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,240
And that the dog packs would follow the
555
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,520
human nomadic tribes and eat the scraps.
556
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:30,160
And contrary to popular myth, the early humans
557
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,420
who were nomadic were not eating steak and
558
00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:36,940
burgers, cheeseburgers and ribs.
559
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,320
There's no factory farming.
560
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,340
It wasn't that easy to find animals.
561
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,940
And now the later research, the new research
562
00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:49,720
of literally what's between their teeth in the
563
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,820
fossils has uncovered that they were primarily almost
564
00:22:52,820 --> 00:22:54,280
exclusively plant-based.
565
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,920
Occasionally, they might grab a bison or something,
566
00:22:57,060 --> 00:22:58,740
but basically they were eating a lot of
567
00:22:58,740 --> 00:22:59,160
plants.
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00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:01,160
Any thoughts on that, Lisbeth?
569
00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:03,340
Yeah.
570
00:23:03,540 --> 00:23:05,920
So, I mean, we mentioned earlier the alleles,
571
00:23:06,060 --> 00:23:08,960
but I mean, actually even wolves were, if
572
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,660
you look back at the history, they were
573
00:23:10,660 --> 00:23:11,280
omnivores.
574
00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:13,740
They weren't meat eaters exclusively.
575
00:23:14,380 --> 00:23:17,740
And when you have a complete and balanced
576
00:23:17,740 --> 00:23:21,300
diet that meets all the nutrients, then there's
577
00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:24,540
no reason that you shouldn't have a plant
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00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:24,980
-based diet.
579
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,820
And one of Dr. Sarah Dodd's studies actually
580
00:23:27,820 --> 00:23:33,000
looked at over 2,000 individuals who were
581
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,240
feeding their dogs plant-based.
582
00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:37,740
And it showed, she just determined that it
583
00:23:37,740 --> 00:23:40,900
was statistically significant that there were, if you
584
00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:43,040
feed a dog a plant-based diet for
585
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,540
at least three years, that you can have
586
00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:48,960
an average life expectancy increase in by as
587
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,460
much as a year and a half on
588
00:23:50,460 --> 00:23:51,880
your dogs, which is a lot for a
589
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:52,080
dog.
590
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:53,640
Oh yeah.
591
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,680
Because that's seven years in human terms, right?
592
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,500
So you're adding 10 years to your dog's
593
00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:01,640
life in human terms.
594
00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:04,980
And we know, us dog lovers, that every
595
00:24:04,980 --> 00:24:06,900
second with our dogs counts.
596
00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:10,020
I mean, I've had dogs my whole life
597
00:24:10,020 --> 00:24:12,700
and they bring me so much joy.
598
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,720
But when they do get to that end
599
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,120
of life, it is the most crushing experience
600
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,840
that I can personally tell you about in
601
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:23,500
my life.
602
00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:25,760
I think it's interesting because people say we
603
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,800
grieve more for our dogs because we have
604
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,180
no conflicted feelings.
605
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,880
With any human being, there's a little up
606
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,120
and down, a little conflict.
607
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,640
So the grief is tempered by, remember when
608
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:37,380
they did that?
609
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,620
But with dogs and cats and other companion
610
00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:44,300
animals and animals in general, there's none of
611
00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,820
that because there's unconditional love and that's it.
612
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,300
So we have some great stories on that
613
00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:52,260
really quick, Jane.
614
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,660
So we've been doing taste tests that are
615
00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:59,520
one ball taste tests for our dog food.
616
00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:01,960
And I have these two great stories with
617
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,460
senior dogs that were not eating, they were
618
00:25:04,460 --> 00:25:08,480
conventional diets, meat diets, were not eating their
619
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:08,800
kibble.
620
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,120
One of the dogs was deaf and blind,
621
00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:12,500
14 years old.
622
00:25:13,020 --> 00:25:15,640
And I could see the ribs on the
623
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:15,940
dog.
624
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,840
I opened up this, our virtuous vittles, soon
625
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,380
as our package was open, this dog came
626
00:25:22,380 --> 00:25:23,240
flopping over.
627
00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:25,380
I filled up her bowl and she just
628
00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:29,320
gobbled off the package, went, did these little
629
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,500
wigglies on the couch and then on her
630
00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:32,440
chair and her bed.
631
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,760
I put some more in there.
632
00:25:33,820 --> 00:25:35,520
She came back, she went through two packages.
633
00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:37,460
And then when we would mix the virtuous
634
00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:40,100
vittles with the kibble, she was eating.
635
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,700
And so my friend was just so gracious.
636
00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:44,240
She's like, oh my gosh, my dog is
637
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,940
so old and hasn't been eating.
638
00:25:47,060 --> 00:25:49,120
And now we can just have this extra
639
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,120
joyful time with our dog because of your
640
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:51,460
food.
641
00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:52,740
It was really touching.
642
00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:53,880
Yeah.
643
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,260
So that shows you that these dogs crave
644
00:25:57,260 --> 00:25:57,920
this food.
645
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,280
And let me ask you about the transition
646
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,400
because first of all, you know, we always
647
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,720
say this is educational only consult your veterinarian.
648
00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:14,620
But when you're transitioning a dog from a
649
00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:18,200
meat diet, primarily meat to a plant-based
650
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,300
diet, what are some of the instructions that
651
00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,100
you would give somebody who's making that transition?
652
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,340
Yeah, that's such a great question.
653
00:26:26,340 --> 00:26:28,160
And it really depends a lot on your
654
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:28,540
dog.
655
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,940
So if your dog...
656
00:26:30,940 --> 00:26:33,800
So we designed virtuous vittles really to be
657
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,420
like delicious from first sniff, you know, from
658
00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:37,980
sniff to snarf right away.
659
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,220
So there's no need from that perspective, you
660
00:26:41,220 --> 00:26:43,480
know, from a taste perspective to give them
661
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,020
any transitionary period.
662
00:26:45,620 --> 00:26:46,600
But it depends.
663
00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:48,400
If your dog has a really sensitive stomach
664
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,360
or is used to eating one type of
665
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,940
food consistently, we find it's better to do
666
00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:54,880
a gentle introduction.
667
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,760
So, you know, start with a quarter virtuous
668
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,920
vittles, three quarters the food and kind of
669
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:01,740
do, you know, transition over a week to
670
00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:03,980
10 days just to make sure that their
671
00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:06,760
gut biome has a chance to catch up.
672
00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:09,780
But other than that, there's really no, you
673
00:27:09,780 --> 00:27:10,320
know, need.
674
00:27:10,460 --> 00:27:14,620
There's the difference as Dr. Saradon was saying,
675
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,500
the difference, there isn't really a difference in
676
00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:19,160
the amino acid profile and in all the
677
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,060
essential nutrients between traditional dog foods and virtuous
678
00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:23,440
vittles.
679
00:27:23,950 --> 00:27:26,520
So there's no, you know, there's no biological
680
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,320
need for a transitionary time.
681
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,880
It's kind of a tummy need, perhaps just
682
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,540
a biome need if your dog is not
683
00:27:34,540 --> 00:27:36,760
used to eating a variety of foods.
684
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,980
But if your dog's used to eating a
685
00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:40,980
variety of foods, just you can just feed
686
00:27:40,980 --> 00:27:43,480
them a meal of virtuous vittles and they'll
687
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,260
probably snarf it up right away.
688
00:27:46,140 --> 00:27:49,720
Now, we always talk about here at Unchained
689
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,160
TV, you know, environmentalism and plant-based.
690
00:27:53,860 --> 00:27:56,120
The New York Times reported on an Oxford
691
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,800
University study that showed that heavy meat eaters,
692
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,260
which is most, many if not most Americans
693
00:28:02,260 --> 00:28:05,500
can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions footprint by
694
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,560
75% by switching to a plant-based
695
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:08,940
diet.
696
00:28:09,340 --> 00:28:11,840
So let's dive in a little bit because
697
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,320
I think there is a disconnect.
698
00:28:13,540 --> 00:28:15,720
I think a lot of people think, well,
699
00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:17,500
these dogs have to eat meat.
700
00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:20,420
Therefore, even if I'm a quote unquote environmentalist,
701
00:28:20,420 --> 00:28:23,120
even if I'm plant forward, which a lot
702
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,580
of people say, and I applaud that, we
703
00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:26,200
accept people wherever they are in the journey,
704
00:28:27,420 --> 00:28:29,400
my dogs have to eat meat.
705
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,140
A, you've talked about why that's just not
706
00:28:32,140 --> 00:28:34,300
true, but B, let's talk about the environmental
707
00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:35,320
impact a little bit.
708
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,860
Yeah, as you just put up on the
709
00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:40,720
screen, it's really shocking.
710
00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:42,880
25 to 30% of the meat consumed
711
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,680
in the US goes to feed our companion
712
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:45,220
animals.
713
00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:47,640
And that's just, I mean, when I heard
714
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,520
that number, I thought it was astounding, but
715
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,840
it's verified.
716
00:28:55,180 --> 00:28:58,420
And as I said, with Ziggy at 10
717
00:28:58,420 --> 00:29:03,340
pounds, saving enough CO2 that you could fly
718
00:29:03,340 --> 00:29:04,880
around the world the whole time.
719
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,800
I'd rather take a vacation around the world
720
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,140
than feed my dog meat food if the
721
00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:14,920
environmental or the CO2 savings are the same.
722
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,260
So it's really an impactful way that if
723
00:29:18,260 --> 00:29:21,580
you're looking to just reduce or mitigate or
724
00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:25,560
be plant forward and reduce the overall impact
725
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:31,660
of your whole family with regards to CO2
726
00:29:31,660 --> 00:29:35,260
emissions is a big one, but it's also
727
00:29:35,260 --> 00:29:42,320
land use, water use, species, the species of
728
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:42,720
the world.
729
00:29:43,780 --> 00:29:45,000
Extinction, yeah, thank you.
730
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,800
Yeah, I mean, it's 80% of the
731
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:48,320
Amazon.
732
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,860
One of the things that we see going
733
00:29:49,860 --> 00:29:50,060
on...
734
00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:51,180
Oh, sorry.
735
00:29:51,660 --> 00:29:52,020
Go ahead.
736
00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:53,640
Go.
737
00:29:54,940 --> 00:29:55,340
Okay.
738
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:55,740
Go ahead.
739
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,460
I'm sorry, Breanna.
740
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,160
I thought it was a little bad, so
741
00:29:59,160 --> 00:29:59,840
I thought you were finished.
742
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,860
But one thing that's been happening, and we
743
00:30:03,860 --> 00:30:05,860
were talking to Dr. Sherrodot about this, as
744
00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:12,120
guardians are starting to try and get healthier
745
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,600
foods for their companions, they're turning away from
746
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,460
what was originally in the meat industry.
747
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,140
The meat industry for pet food started out
748
00:30:22,140 --> 00:30:24,100
as being just the worst of the worst,
749
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,420
and just the extras that were not being
750
00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:28,520
used for human consumption.
751
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:31,840
But as guardians are turning to healthier alternatives
752
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,720
for their companions, then that's exasperating the impact
753
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,480
on the climate, because now we have our
754
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,440
dogs and our cats eating human-grade food
755
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,800
and competing with that.
756
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,420
And so instead of using the extras of
757
00:30:48,420 --> 00:30:50,440
the meat industry, and so that even has
758
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,480
a bigger impact on the climate.
759
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,580
So turning to plant-based is really a
760
00:30:54,580 --> 00:30:57,180
really great alternative to address that issue as
761
00:30:57,180 --> 00:30:57,440
well.
762
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,700
And we've got one more thing.
763
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,720
I got five dogs in my immediate family,
764
00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:04,320
and they all eat a plant-based diet.
765
00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:08,300
Yeah, I mean, look, there are thousands, hundreds
766
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:09,680
of thousands of examples.
767
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,680
Because as vegans grow as a percentage of
768
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,400
the population, and they become hip to this
769
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,940
possibility that you don't have to...
770
00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:21,360
Listen, I've been vegan 30 years.
771
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,420
I didn't know this when I started.
772
00:31:23,420 --> 00:31:26,580
I didn't know that dogs could survive on
773
00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:27,700
a plant-based diet.
774
00:31:28,020 --> 00:31:30,680
So I've had dogs that weren't plant-based,
775
00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:34,880
but I'm so thrilled, personally, as a person
776
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,380
who is plant-based to not have...
777
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,780
I've got a sign that says, welcome to
778
00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:40,720
my plant-based kitchen.
779
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,960
I don't want to have meat in my
780
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,340
house.
781
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,100
Exactly.
782
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:44,700
I don't want people bringing meat into my
783
00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:44,920
house.
784
00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:46,260
I don't like to go to dinner with
785
00:31:46,260 --> 00:31:47,380
people who are eating animals.
786
00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:49,040
So why would I want to serve it
787
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,640
to my dogs?
788
00:31:50,020 --> 00:31:52,460
I want to read...
789
00:31:53,420 --> 00:31:55,280
Or you can, the ingredients here.
790
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,440
Because I think that people are interested.
791
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,700
And so I'm going to just quickly run
792
00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:01,140
through it.
793
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,820
It's long, but I think it's worth it.
794
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We're talking vegetable broth, potatoes, sweet potato, apple,
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coconut oil, wheat gluten, coconut aminos, carrots, pumpkin,
796
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spinach, olive oil, pea protein, green peas, yeast,
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beet power, chickpea flour, calcium from red algae,
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00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:23,120
amino acids, taurine, agar, apple cider vinegar, choline
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chloride, dried kelp, fruit and vegetable blend, carrot,
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apple, tomato, shiitake, broccoli, orange, cranberry, pumpkin, beet,
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tart, cherry, strawberry, blueberry, green, algae, minerals, phosphate,
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selenium, yeast.
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So, oh my God.
804
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That's a lot of work.
805
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,980
When you said that this was a home
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recipe.
807
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Wow.
808
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It was really key.
809
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And everybody's saying this is exciting.
810
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Yes.
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I think it's a breakthrough.
812
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How did you come up with this combination?
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Yeah.
814
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So, well, we started with a very, very
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complex spreadsheet, to be honest.
816
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I took all of the ingredients I was
817
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working with and went to the FDA website,
818
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,320
got all of the micronutrients into a spreadsheet
819
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and literally just like worked it and worked
820
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it and worked it because it was really
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critical for us that we didn't just have
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a base and then throw a bunch of
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synthetic vitamins and minerals on top of it
824
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in order to kind of make it a
825
00:33:23,220 --> 00:33:26,500
complete meal, which is really common in the
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pet food industry at large.
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So, what we did instead is really build
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foundationally from the nutrients found in every one
829
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of these ingredients and put them together so
830
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,980
that they formed a complete and balanced meal.
831
00:33:39,980 --> 00:33:41,800
And, of course, we brought in Dr. Sarah
832
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,160
Dodd, who massaged and helped and brought it
833
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,640
to fruition with her much more sophisticated knowledge
834
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:49,560
and software.
835
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,940
I want to ask you about the taurine
836
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because people are always talking about taurine, taurine,
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taurine, and they equate it with animal products.
838
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,320
And I've even had people say, well, you
839
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,140
know, dogs need taurine.
840
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,320
Well, you've got taurine here.
841
00:34:04,380 --> 00:34:05,840
How did you get the plant-based taurine?
842
00:34:06,510 --> 00:34:09,679
Yeah, so taurine is actually one of only
843
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:11,139
two synthetic ingredients.
844
00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:13,040
It is available from plants.
845
00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:16,000
It is extremely expensive from plants.
846
00:34:16,179 --> 00:34:19,780
So, that was one area where, you know,
847
00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:23,460
in conversation with Dr. Dodd, this was a
848
00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:26,340
decision that was a perfectly healthy and strong
849
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:27,260
decision to be made.
850
00:34:27,860 --> 00:34:29,420
We add it in our dog food.
851
00:34:29,420 --> 00:34:35,360
It's a nutrient that dogs do synthesize on
852
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,540
their own, like humans do.
853
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,880
Like, humans don't actually have a taurine requirement.
854
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:39,639
Cats do.
855
00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:41,380
Cats don't synthesize it on their own.
856
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:43,440
But dogs and humans do.
857
00:34:44,420 --> 00:34:47,000
Even so, we added some because it's just
858
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,300
basically a good, you know, a healthy.
859
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,760
We designed this food for long-term health.
860
00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:55,360
We also designed it for urinary health, which
861
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,300
is another thing that makes it completely different
862
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,480
than anything else on the market currently in
863
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,380
the plant-based space.
864
00:35:02,260 --> 00:35:07,140
We found that, you know, so dog urinary
865
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:08,460
issues are very common.
866
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,340
They're not actually commonly diet-related, but once
867
00:35:12,340 --> 00:35:14,360
your dog does have a urinary issue, it
868
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,560
can be assisted with diet.
869
00:35:16,940 --> 00:35:19,260
And that's a diet that has a balanced
870
00:35:19,260 --> 00:35:24,280
mineral content and a high moisture content.
871
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,840
So we designed, we formulated with Dr. Dodd
872
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,280
for urinary health.
873
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:38,580
And yeah, just kind of every choice that
874
00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:42,400
we put into this food was for health.
875
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:43,160
Okay.
876
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,240
So Ruta is saying, I can't wait for
877
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:47,420
Virtuous Vittles cat food to come out.
878
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,200
But guess what, Ruta?
879
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:50,240
It's coming.
880
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:52,200
We have a surprise for you.
881
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,860
Tell us about that.
882
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:56,060
We focused on the dog food, but tell
883
00:35:56,060 --> 00:35:57,740
us about, and there it is.
884
00:35:57,780 --> 00:36:00,900
There's the chunky, beefy, they don't know it's
885
00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:01,340
not me.
886
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,480
Tell us about the cat food.
887
00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:03,520
It's coming.
888
00:36:03,660 --> 00:36:04,000
It's coming.
889
00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:06,140
Cats are like so much pickier.
890
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,320
So we have some formulas.
891
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,720
We're in the final stages of kind of
892
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,240
getting them just perfected.
893
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,580
I mean, so like with our dog food,
894
00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:19,620
this is a little known fact that in
895
00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:21,200
order to call, in order to use the
896
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,620
word delicious when marketing a dog food or
897
00:36:23,620 --> 00:36:26,980
a pet food, one has to, for dogs,
898
00:36:27,140 --> 00:36:29,940
it's achieve 80 out of a hundred dogs
899
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,620
snarfing up the food within 15 minutes.
900
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,700
And there's a bunch of like little requirements.
901
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,580
It's a real test that the FCC requires.
902
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,300
So for cats, that's a little bit lower
903
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:41,500
of a number for dogs.
904
00:36:41,620 --> 00:36:45,060
So we actually have a 95% delicious
905
00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:46,900
rate with our dog food.
906
00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:51,480
And for cats, we are like, we're just,
907
00:36:51,580 --> 00:36:53,160
we're striving for the, for the same.
908
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,380
So, so we're doing final micro tweaks each
909
00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:58,340
time where, you know, making a test batch,
910
00:36:58,660 --> 00:36:59,940
sending it out to a bunch of cats.
911
00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:03,300
We know getting feedback and tweaking the recipe
912
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:03,840
a little bit more.
913
00:37:03,980 --> 00:37:04,980
We're very, very close.
914
00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:06,820
And we are thinking that we'll have one
915
00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:09,940
come out hopefully in just about four or
916
00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:10,620
five months from now.
917
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:11,920
Wow.
918
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,480
Well, this is so exciting.
919
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,120
Everybody.
920
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,280
I just want to say bravo to creating
921
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:18,780
this.
922
00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:22,480
These are the co-founders go to Virtuous
923
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,100
Vittles.
924
00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:27,940
And there is a great little, what would
925
00:37:27,940 --> 00:37:28,460
you call it?
926
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,460
Special offer.
927
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,060
You can get the packet for $20.
928
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,840
You can test it out, get tails wagging
929
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,420
with a generous trial pack that includes two
930
00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:41,400
full size 12.5 ounce cartons of this
931
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,800
incredible Virtuous Vittles product.
932
00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:47,680
I just think you guys are fantastic.
933
00:37:48,260 --> 00:37:48,940
Congratulations.
934
00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:51,440
My dogs are loving it.
935
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,800
As you saw at the top of the
936
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,040
show, and I just want everybody to share
937
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,280
this out so that we can be part
938
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,140
of the solution and live in a world
939
00:38:01,140 --> 00:38:02,820
where our animals are happy.
940
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,520
We are happy.
941
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,920
And look what Tina Walker says.
942
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,860
Can't wait for that because my Lucky is
943
00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:11,160
getting off his food.
944
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:11,800
Okay.
945
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,900
There you go.
946
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,100
Cat food as well.
947
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:14,600
Yay.
948
00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:16,560
Everybody's moving on that.
949
00:38:16,940 --> 00:38:18,620
See you next time.
950
00:38:19,020 --> 00:38:20,220
Share this out, people.
951
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:26,560
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952
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Virtuous Vittles dog food.
953
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954
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Okay.
955
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956
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