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Date:    Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:35:45 -0500
Siobhan replied to my post:
<<Dr. Francis Pottengers book and video, Pottenger's Cats, shows that cats
on a deficient diet were born with bones that were less calcified (less
calcium rich) and with each successive generation on a deficient diet, the
subsequent cats had weaker and weaker bones, frailer frames, and
progressively more health problems---allergies, muscle and nevervous system
weakness, eye problems, sexual confusion, and so forth.  >>

>>What is "sexual confusion"?

Male cats tried to mount male cats, females tried to mount females.  They
had confusion about their biological role.

The Pottenger's Cat's video shows the progresive weakness of each generation
of cats on deficient and/or inappropriate diets (with sweetened condensed
milk, cooked meat when cats need raw meat, etc) and how they lose interest
with the opposite sex, have more allergies, uncoordination, frail bones,
lethagry, babies with more and more health problems and a lack of vitality,
then more problems with the next generation, and the next, etc...

From the book POTTENGER'S CATS, page 11:  "Cooked meat fed cats show even
more irritibability.  Some females are reven dangers to handle.... The
males, on the other hand, are more docile, often to the point of being
unaggressive and their sex interest is slack or perveted.  In essence, there
is a role reversl with the female cats becoming the agressors and the male
cats becoming passive as well as evidence of increasing abnormal activities
between the same sexes.  Such sexual deviations are not observed among the
raw food cats."   (Pottenger's words, not mine.)

 "At autopsy, cooked meat fed females [cats] frequently present ovarian
atrophy and uterine congestion, and the males often show failure in the
development of active spermatogenesis.  Abortion in pregnant females is
common, running 25 percent in the first deficient generation to about 70
percent in the second generation.  Delivers are generally difficult with
many females dying in labor....."  It does on to detail progressive weakness
of the mother after delivery, etc.....

The Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and the Weston A. Price Foundation
have these books and videos if you'd like to learn more.  The work is
fascinating.  THe book is short; the video is even more fascinating.

Rachel Matesz