by merlin » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:39 pm
Lori,
Her article was written for the Grey Play Round Table Grey magazine in 1999. I have great confidence in everything that she wrote. She was really competent and respected.
I personally will never allow my birds to eat any foods or pellets that contain artificial dyes/colors and synthetic sugars. There are other foods that are sold that are natural. There also are many toy companies that sell natural wood toys and also colored wood toys that are dyed by vegetable and fruit colors, which are natural and not synthetic.
Lori, I suggest that when you find a toy that you like for Sparkey that you contact the toy company and make sure they use vegetable dyes instead of chemical toys on their toys. Many of them have switched over.
Maggie-