Humans also need to cook foods in order to destroy many of the bacteria found in raw food. Animals have developed a stronger immune system and the under normal conditions have sufficient acid in their stomach to kill pathogenic bacteria found in raw foods. Cooking food, as we know, destroys many of the nutritional components found in the foods, which are vital to our physical well-being. Cooking pet food destroys the same nutritional components. One of the most important nutritional components destroyed in cooking foods are enzymes.
Enzymes are important in promoting digestion and assimilation of nutritional components in the food.
Therefore, common sense indicates that if our pet's cousins in the wild survive and flourish on raw foods and indeed prefer raw foods, then perhaps our own pets may be better off eating raw food rather than processed foods. Although the ancestors of our contemporary family of pets hunted and ate their prey raw. The digestive tract of domesticated animals has adapted to cooked foods over the centuries. Our cats and dogs readily readapt to raw foods as if their system never experienced cooked foods. Alternative veterinarians recommend raw meat and raw fish in lieu of cooked meat and fish.