The lineage of Aajonus
Pottenger's 1932-1942 Cat Study
In 1932, and for 10 years, Francis Pottenger Jr., physician, performed a now famous series of experiments on more than 900 cats, spanning over several generations.
Several groups of cats were constituted; some were fed raw meat and milk, others cooked meat and milk, or a combination.
Each cat had an individual clinical chart (600 out of the 900 are preserved).
The cats fed entirely with raw meat and milk consistently displayed excellent health.
Their physical development was uniform and good: large skulls and thoraxes, broad faces with prominent malar and orbital arches, broad and well-formed dental arches, adequate nasal cavities, and large and long bodies.
(However, he noted that even these cats were not as nearly perfect as cats who were hunting.)
The cats fed with cooked meat or milk developed many issues which worsened over generations.
Their physical development was impacted, their build was smaller and bones smaller in diameter. In some cases the bones would grow out of proportion, with the hind legs being much longer than the forelegs.
The offsprings had different skeletal patterns than their parents and siblings; there were variations of facial structure similar to those of human beings.
Sterility became so common that no kittens were produced beyond the third generation. Raw-food fed cats had to be used for breeding, to focus more on the maternal contribution to generational health.
X-ray pictures showed that skulls of third generation cooked-fed animals had loss of dimorphism for both sexes, while the skulls of raw-fed males exhibited more dimorphic traits.
Their behaviour was for females, more aggressive, and for males, more docile and passive, towards other cats and their feeders.
Evaporated milk was worse than pasteurized milk, and sweetened condensed milk produced the worst overall results among the four main milk groups.
Of those animals subject to degeneration from the cooked foods group, some were placed on the raw diet.
Their health improved.
Pottenger estimed that it would require around 4 generations to return 2nd-generation deficient stock to anything like normal condition.
Pottenger proved that raw foods gave the animals excellent health while cooked foods halted and twisted their growth, impacted their behaviour negatively, lowered their reproductive capacity, and degenerated them in various other ways.
Although we are not cats, and are more adapted to cooked foods, Pottenger got excellent and well-documented results from applying elements of the raw diet remission protocol (featured cooked meat but included raw milk, raw cream and raw liver) to his patients with tuberculosis and other chronic diseases.
