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[RC] Old Age & Healthy - k s swigartEd said: This strong possibility of my early death does not even begin to address the possibility of diphtheria, small pox, typhoid, cholera etc. They did a very good job of keeping the average age of death in the 30's during most of human history. He does not mention food poisoning (e.g. eating spoiled food) or starvation. Two things which "processing" food has reduced dramatically. If you process foods, you can more safely store them and/or ship them to where they are needed. This, BTW, is true of the feeds we give our horses too. And food processing has been so successful at solving these two problems that there are few Americans who even recognize them as problems. Before people started "processing" food, there was a damn good chance that it was the food you ate that killed you....or the food you didn't get to eat so you starved to death. Additionally, I consider it rather ironic that there are many people out there who are advocating "natural" lifestyles for our horses, without realizing that wild horses are now extinct. The only horses that exist today are decendents of the ones that abandoned "nature" for domesticity. Whatever it is that the horses that weren't domesticated did in order to survive was not very successful, since they didn't survive long enough to reproduce. Hardly a resounding recommendation for mimicking their lifestyle :). kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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