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will survive, though poorly, just like modern domesticated canines
survive – poorly – plagued with all of the degenerative diseases common
to their human counterparts eating processed foods.
If domesticated dogs were turned loose to consume their natural prey
diet, they would survive just like the wolf and dingo do – all,
incidentally, eating the identical food. Sufficient time has not elapsed
to make domesticated creatures genetically dependent upon specifically
tailored processed recipes. Modern commercial foods have
only been widely used for about the past 50 years. In that short time
creatures genetically tuned to wild prey have not suddenly converted
their genetics to the hammer mill, extruder, oven and retorter. All life
from the beginning of time has been sustained by eating the fresh raw
natural foods from the natural environment.
This is the reason that the Wysong Optimal Health Program (see pages
195-208) teaches people how to feed fresh raw foods and appropriately
supplement when feeding processed commercial diets.
16. Must pet foods be tested on laboratory animals to prove their
safety Even though there is no invasive, toxic, or disease-inducing
experimental abuse in feeding trials, there is nonetheless a cruelty in
keeping animals in a caged environment for such tests.
Additionally, the tests do not prove what they are intended to: “100%
completeness.” Feeding trials are performed on caged animals and
are short-term (generally 26 weeks at most). Such tests deny that
nutrition can have effects beyond the few weeks used in a feeding
trial. Undetected nutrient imbalance in youth has, for example, been
shown to affect both animal and human, adult and all age susceptibility
to many chronic degenerative diseases, and even impact the health of
future generations.* A feeding trial does not measure this.
Further, results from a laboratory-bred puppy raised on concrete in
stainless steel cages, placed under fluorescent lights, breathing conditioned
air does not necessarily correlate to real animals in homes and
back yards.
* Wysong Health Letter, “Don’t Let Apparently Youthful Health Fool You,”
7(12):6. Price W, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1982. Pottenger FM,
Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition, 1983. J Am Coll Cardiol, 1993; 22(2):
459-67. J Am Med Assoc, 1999; 281:727-35.
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