Jay Banks wrote:
>
> Pottenger's Cats: A Study in Nutrition
> by Francis M. Pottenger (www.amazon.com)
>
> Pottenger's Cats is a classic in the science of nutrition. Dr.
> Pottenger discovered quite by accident that cats degenerated
> unless they were fed raw food. In his 10-year study of 900 cats,
> he found the optimal diet for his cats was 2/3 raw meat and 1/3
> raw milk plus a little cod liver oil. If either the meat or the milk
> was cooked, the cats degenerated. And if both were cooked,
> the degeneration was much worse, and the cats could no
> longer reproduce by the third generation.


I believe that these cats were surgically maimed, were they
not? He removed the adrenal glands, and it was these cats
who were unable to digest food properly. Normal cats have no
trouble with cooked meat.

I have never heard of anyone replicating the cat experiment.
It is not science. Not yet anyway.