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Another criticism is that the cats were kept in an artificial environment unrelated to real living conditions. Such a criticism overlooks the experimental necessity of maintaining a controlled environment to provide valid findings. It also overlooks the evidence that given specific living conditions, specific The Cat Study of Francis M. Pottenger, changes repeatedly occurred in the Jr., MD is unique. There is no similar experiment in the medical literature. The health of the cats under observation. pathological and chemical findings were Another frequent criticism is that the supervised by Francis in consultation experimental work done on cat nutrition with Alvin G. Foord, M.D., professor of has no appropriate application to hupathology at the University of Southern man nutrition. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., California and pathologist at the HuntMD never stated that a one-to-one comington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. parison could be made between his findAccordingly, the studies met the most ings in cat nutrition and his findings in rigorous scientific standards of the day human nutrition. He did say: "While no and their protocol was observed consisattempt will be made to correlate the tently. changes in the animals studied with As his neighbors in Monrovia kept donatmalformations found in humans, the Since The Cat Study is unique, its finding an increasing number of cats to his similarity is so obvious that parallel picings are frequently quoted and mislaboratory, the demand for cooked meat tures will suggest themselves." quoted in order to justify the ideas of scraps exceeded supply and he placed others. For example, one author of a an order at the local meat packing plant popular selling book states that 200 for raw meat scraps, again including the cats died of arthritis; this indeed did not viscera, muscle and bone. These raw happen. Another author states that the Reprinted from www.price-pottenger.org meat scraps were fed to a segregated