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yes, but on a different thread please.It would be fun to see the history of commercial animal food in a snapshot sort of way over the decades.
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yes, but on a different thread please.It would be fun to see the history of commercial animal food in a snapshot sort of way over the decades.
It’s so interesting to look at the past and see both the good and the bad and all the changes that have happened. Some for our betterment and some for the worse!!Dog food as I saw it in the 1050's and early 1960's included dry dog food, canned horse meat, and table scraps. Don't ask me to go back to canned horse meat!
High egg producing hens in the early 1900's maybe produced 100 eggs annually! And farms included multiple species and their feeds, and a more diverse environment generally.
Early dog and especially cat foods were not ideal, but research and food trials have vastly improved most/ many such diets.
Mary
as it happens, this is in the news this morningThere have been some recent articles on what are called forever chemicals. just one article I've read and there are plenty more for those who are interested.
What I found interesting was a recent study on vegetables in the USA found high levels of these chemicals in both organic and non organic produce.
Naturally people wondered why and it seems they are in the water used for watering.
Just how big an issue this is remains to be seen. For people the current advice is to steer clear of highly processed foods. For chickens this would include commercial feed.
Just an added issue to think about.
if you read the article, it says that covid is only partly responsible.And our recent decline in life expectancy is related to the Covid pandemic. Maybe also in the increase in obesity. And nowhere near life expectacy 100 years ago, recent history.
Mary
Some of the low-seeming numbers were skewed by early childhood diseases. If they made it past those, people stood a decent chance of living what we would consider a long life.Life expectancy isn't a simple linear improvement over time.
yes, good point; they also had to survive warfare for men and pregnancy and childbirth for women.Some of the low-seeming numbers were skewed by early childhood diseases. If they made it past those, people stood a decent chance of living what we would consider a long life.