Dietary choices all come down to personally weighing the good and the bad, taking the right precautions about the bad, keeping one's vet fully informed on what choices are used, and accepting that it is just fine for others to reach different conclusions, just not alright to misrepresent any as being perfect or to try to bully or induce guilt. The types and levels of risks differ with food choices and some are well documented (like increased infection risk with raw food, and increased struvite urolith risk with kibbles that have too much vegetable protein) while some are hypothetical (like possible increase in insulinoma risk with some kibbles) Anyway, here is the article at VIN: http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=23673 I recently brought in some links with concerns about a few kibbles that were too high in D3 (this time mostly ones that might be fed to animals like mice which could later be fed to ferrets, so see past posts for those), so I guess this new link balances things some, though it also tries for balance in the article itself while addressing the main topic fully enough. Basically, whatever is fed, the users need to at least try to reasonably understand the risks and the postulated risks (hypotheses sometimes pan out but sometimes do not when studied well enough) and to follow recalls at USDA and FDA sites. Personally, I am not interested in the politics involved (and that stuff can't be on the FHL, anyway) but am interested in people not pretending that perfection exists where it is not possible because that sort of self-delusion has led to some ferrets not getting proper and prompt veterinary care in the past. I've seen that happen once with hypercalcemia from too much D3, repeatedly with ferrets with struvite uroliths from low quality kibbles, and repeatedly with infections from raw food. Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game. Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7508]