Hi Leora,
It's not links you need.
The internet is full of unsubstantiated opinions referred to by
others and linked to more and more, copied all over and repeated ad
nauseum - that's no way to find truth.
I studied microbiology - all you ned to do is look down a microscope
to see what diatoms look like - then look down the same microscope at
what lung cells and gut cells look like - and look again at the
relatively tough skins of parasites.
Now take that all into account. Add that the reason parasites are
killed by eating diatoms - is that the sharp points of the diatoms
cut the parasite cell walls to shreds.
That's a fact. Researched fact.
Now you tell me - how is a dead diatom skeleton supposed to know what
is parasite and what is lung or gut cell?
It doesn't.
It shreds whatever is there.
Cats have died from breathing diatoms that people spread on carpets
to supposedly kill fleas - they breagthe the diatom "dust"....
I do not have the research stuff I used to have handy on this. But it
really is common sense, once you look down a microscope - it's as
obvious as the nose on my face:-)
Yes well - links again - are no use to anyone. It's the same stuff
going in circles, from an unknown origin. Frustrating to all well
meaning seekers of feline fact.
Every year since at least 1998, there is an international symposium
of feline and canine nutrition, at which scientists from all over the
world, present their findings. These original research papers are
then bound (I nearly said "and gagged") and published (and then
buried by IAMS unless you buy a copy before they run out - hence the
"and gagged" tendency).
These papers are the real reseaqch from which we learn more every
year ablout how canines and felines work internally.
the stuff in "links" starts wih a lot of assumptions - and yet almost
every research paper starts with "We thought that.....
....but it turns out cats are different".....
Those links contain all the "we thought" stuff.
It needs to be rep;aced with all the "but it turns out" stuff.
EVO is perhaps the single worst dry food on the market, so your cats
have taste using it for litter - it's where it belongs:-)
And dogs will eat garlic and cats will eat ethylene glycol - both of
which can kill them.
What they choose to eat is not a good way to tell what's nutritious
or poisonous.
We do not need to do as much guesswork as the current manufacturers
of food are doingl There IS good research we can use, so as to supply
a food that is closer to what's appropriate.
A story from a link again?
Remember why we domesticated cats in the first place?
They were being used to catch the rodents eating the grain:-)
Grain is actually one of the few plant items that cats have learned
to use over the centuries since those days - as they always got some
in the gut of their prey. It's in fact the only kind of plant
material from which cats can extract some nutrients. Not that I
advocate grains as
a major food. But commercial food is not 100% protein and nor is wild
food. Wild food (mouse, insects, etc) is 55 to 65% protein.
So commercial foods need to add something to fill in the rest.
As an example:
ProPac kitten dry food (the best dry food I know of commercially) is
34% animal protein from chicken fish and egg. It has 22% fat from
chicken preserved with Vit E. It has 10% moisture. That leaves 34%
carbohydrate, and it is from the grains which research shows cats get
the most nutrition from, and which do NOT mess with their necessary
acid pH - namely rice and corn.
I'd prefer it to have more protein, less carbohydrate, but as I said
- it's the best I can find so far. It has NO feline toxins and no
plant protein, and that's at least as important for kidney health. I
can find no other food with carbohydrate equal or less than the
protein percentage from animal protein.
(Why do you not?)
Research shows rice and corn (not other grains) are the carbohydrates
from which cats can best derive nutrients, and also that they do NOT
raise the critical low pH of the urinary tract needed fro kidney
health - unlike other carb sources.
What research?
It is not a research site, so I decline.
But I'll read any research you point me to, that contradicts or
enhances what 1998 and later research shows, as presented at canine
and feline research symposia annually.
Maybe - Sorry but I do not have time to re-educate another forum - I
have my own - Catwell.
Nope. They'd have to prove that:-)
I spend my life learning cat research and helping cats live longer
healthier lives - all my life and education is in that line:-)
I challenge them/you to produce ANY such research to contradict what
I know from research on this subject:-)
Anyone can join MY forum at Catwell and look at real research
findings and the healthy results from following them:-)
We have almost a thousand members - been going since about 1998 - and
use verified research, which costs money and effort to obtain - no
"links" to find valid information.
My clients' animals show the healthy results.
The one I like to use - URI 30C - is from 1996 vaccine for cats
including the 4 usual "upper respiratory infection" (URI) organisms.
I like the 1996 one as it seems to hand,e live cases as well as being
preventive - no doubt as it is similar rather than identical to
current day URIs in cats. (I stock it and a few other
homeoprophylaxis items not commonly available.)
Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."