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jamiary 1ft, 9 0 0 9 . theorists think that this is just plain too much.” The magazine said pets with allergies and itching seem to do much better on high-meat raw food diets. They cited the case of a test dog, Chops. “On raw food diets, her sebaceous cysts shrunk, and her itchiness was reduced. This was also the case when we tested Steve’s Real Food. We saw a dimin ishing in the cysts on her back and her tail and a reduction in itchiness.” O f course, all this quality does not come cheaply. The suggested retail price of a 2.5- pound bag of the frozen dog food ranges from $6.29 to $7.29 depending on the flavor. That would feed a 12-pound dog for about six days, which would mean a monthly tab of about $35. However, apprecia ble results can be seen on a partial diet of Steve s Real Ftxxl (see sidebar). “I’m not going to lower the quality of it to make it cheaper,” Brown states adamantly. “If you pay 25 cents a pound for dog food, the actual cost must be about 2 cents a pound, so what can be in there?” O f course, not everyone agrees with his approach. In fact, Steve’s Real Food has been under attack from the $30 billion-a-year pet food industry and its allies, who are trying to discredit raw food. Brown says the American Veterinary Medical Association, the or ganization for tradi tional Western vets, also has come down hard against alterna tive medicine, includ ing raw food. One simple expla nation might be ignorance. William D. Cusick, a longtime researcher and author of 1999’s Canine Nutrition, writes: “A survey of the 26 schools of veterinary medicine in the U .S. showed the average amount of training on animal nutrition totals five classroom lecture hours. 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