Re: RC: RE: Re: Re: Animal By-Products in Feed

[Lynn Kinsky <lkinsky@silcom.com>]

>Robin Stated:
>
><<<< Many things are diagnosed as something else. What
>about  hundreds of  years ago? There were not even a fraction of the
>diseases that our pets and ourselves suffer today. So tell  me then, what is
>really wrong with the picture of today? These diseases don't just happen
>they are the CAUSE of  "something".>>>>
>
>Well I started life quite a bit closer to that period of time than Robin did
>so I might be capable of offering some insight to the question.
>
>When I was a child, parents worried about diseases and ills that Robin has
>not, perhaps, even heard of. The life expectancy was considerably shorter
>and the physical condition of those persons living at the time was not near
>as robust as now.
>
>Yes, we hear more about the diseases now, mainly because of the rapidity of
>information dissemination by the media. World wide spread of infections were
>not as rapid since global travel took months rather than hours. And as well,
>persons were allowed to die because of "OLD AGE"! Horrors, now a medical
>cause MUST be determined and noted prior to allowing the fact of death.
>
>And speaking of death, it was a common occurrence, and every day fact of
>life. Now the population expects perpetual youth and health.
>
>Realize Robin, with all your supposed "baddies" you can expect to live to a
>considerable age (not always an advantage) because of all those "baddies
>have contributed the current standard of living you now enjoy.
>
>Bob Morris

Yes.

My parents and grandparents were raised in the pre-BHA, pre-antibiotic
world (sulfa drugs just became available when I was a child and saved my
life at least once), and they still managed to die of cancer and heart
disease before their children were adults (of course all the salt, which
was the major preserving agent in those days,  didn't do much for their
high blood pressure).  A bunch of the other relatives were wiped out in the
flu epidemic of 1917. Two of my grandparents had TB also.   As a kid I had
friends in iron lungs with polio (as well as a famous President, wheelchair
bound from polio -- and I believe one of his sons died from tetanus);  and
measles, mumps, scarlet fever, diptheria and whooping cough were things we
got immunity to by surviving them -- not by getting a shot.

Modern life isn't perfect, but the "good old days" were far from desireable.


Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky