Was it whole peas or pea protein? Whole peas wouldn't be as bad as pea protein because pea protein is a concentrated source of peas. Some foods have a few fractions of peas and when added up there is a whopping amount of peas in there. If your breeding I would stay away from peas all together until we know more about the consequences of feeding them daily.

Remember ethoxyquin? This preservative was found to be detrimental in larger amounts and now it's shown that a much lower lever is probably safe. Still, people don't want ANY ethoxyquin in their foods because of problems they had, probably a over reaction.

Purina now has a grain free with pea protein much further down the ingredient list. This food also contains cassava root flour as the second ingredient. Cassava is similar to a yam, it doesn't grow in the US and it's known to increase fertility, google it. I don't know if cassava root "flour" contains the compound responsible for increasing fertility or if they are banking on people thinking it does. I doubt that Purina has put enough research into these ingredients and I think it's wrong that our dogs are basically part of an experiment.

I read somewhere a while ago that the studies done on humans regardig peas and fertility was the unbelievable large amts of peas the people ate.

No one would eat that amt in a normal diet so most likely would not work as birth control/effect fertility.

The food I have been feeding has peas as the second ingredient and then pea protein further down the list. I have stopped using it until I learn more.

If peas are bad in large quantities....Is the 2nd most ingredient fed every single meal for every day a large quantity?

I have no idea how much is actually in your food just that the study done could not be conclusive because of the very large amts the people were fed.

I tried to search for the article again but can't find it , sorry.

I did however find other articles that (one says - for humans) don't eat too much meat protein but veggie protein instead and peas are listed as good.

Another article said to eat meat protein, but did not say peas are bad.

So who the heck knows? :-(

(: You are right. "Who the heck knows?"