E335-What the Dog Food Industry Doesn’t Want Dog Owners to Know | Dr. Ian Billinghurst
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ian Billinghurst is an Australian veterinarian, surgeon, author, and internationally recognized authority on canine and feline nutrition. He earned his veterinary degree from Murdoch University and practiced for decades as a clinical veterinarian and surgeon, treating companion animals hands-on while simultaneously questioning the nutritional models being pushed by large pet food corporations.
Dr. Billinghurst is best known as one of the original pioneers of biologically appropriate raw feeding (BARF) and is the author of multiple influential books that challenged conventional pet nutrition long before “fresh” and “raw” became mainstream. His work bridges clinical practice, nutritional science, and industry analysis, offering a rare perspective that combines real-world surgical experience with deep academic and historical understanding of how the pet food industry evolved.
In this episode, we go far beyond surface-level nutrition advice and dig into how pet food standards were created, why ultra-processed diets became normalized, and what dog owners should actually understand when advocating for their dog’s long-term health.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, guys, welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Today, I'm sitting down with someone who has massively shaped the way we think about |
| 0:07.9 | canine nutrition. |
| 0:09.4 | Dr. Ian Billinghurst is a veterinarian surgeon, researcher, and the father of the barf diet, |
| 0:15.5 | one of the most influential voices urging dog owners to look beyond processed food and truly understand what dogs are designed |
| 0:23.6 | to eat. If you own a dog, this one you need to listen to or watch, we are breaking down |
| 0:29.7 | what actually fuels a healthy dog or cat maybe and myths that keep dog owners confused and how to |
| 0:37.2 | simply change nutrition can transform your dog owners confused and how to simply change nutrition |
| 0:38.3 | can transform your dog's life and even your train and their behavior and overall, |
| 0:43.8 | their overall quality of life. |
| 0:45.9 | Dr. Ian Bill Nour, thank you for hopping on here. |
| 0:55.7 | Thank you, Tom. |
| 0:56.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:58.1 | It's a great pleasure to be here. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.8 | It's a great honor indeed. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | So for those of you are watching, listening, you may or may not know I've been going around Australia doing dog training seminars. |
| 1:12.7 | And let's just say it's an honor to sit down with this gentleman and it's it was hard to get a hold of Dr. Ian Billinghouse because he's a busy guy. |
| 1:18.9 | But luckily I had a friend Rob, shout out to Rob from Gusty's gut that linked this up |
| 1:24.9 | and here we are and we're in this fancy podcast studio. |
| 1:28.6 | Is this considered Sydney still? |
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