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== History of Pet Food Manufacturing ==

== History of Pet Food Manufacturing ==

More than 2,000 years ago, Roman poet and philosopher Marcus Terentius Varro wrote the first farming manual advising that farm dogs are fed barley bread soaked in milk, and bones from dead sheep<ref name="Harrison">Harrison, F (1918). ''''Note Upon the Roman Agronomists'''''. Roman Farm Management. New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. 1–14</ref>.  During the Middle Ages, it was common for European royalty to have kennels for their hounds. Kennel cooks would make huge stews typically containing grains and vegetables with some meat and leftovers such as heart, liver, and lungs of various livestock.  In contrast dogs in common households had meagre diets being fed only what their owners could spare; a typical dog's diet at the time consisted of crusts of bread, bare bones, potatoes, cabbage, or whatever else they could scavenge from their environment.

More than 2,000 years ago, Roman poet and philosopher Marcus Terentius Varro wrote the first farming manual advising that farm dogs are fed barley bread soaked in milk, and bones from dead sheep<ref name="Harrison">Harrison, F (1918). '''''Note Upon the Roman Agronomists'''''. Roman Farm Management. New York: The Macmillan Company. pp. 1–14</ref>.  During the Middle Ages, it was common for European royalty to have kennels for their hounds. Kennel cooks would make huge stews typically containing grains and vegetables with some meat and leftovers such as heart, liver, and lungs of various livestock.  In contrast dogs in common households had meagre diets being fed only what their owners could spare; a typical dog's diet at the time consisted of crusts of bread, bare bones, potatoes, cabbage, or whatever else they could scavenge from their environment.