Selected Research Animal Studies

There are many animal studies that I will talk about, but first I would like to tell you a story about an experience I had with an animal on a raw food diet.
In November of 2003, I moved in with a friend who had had a companion rabbit for a little over two years. This rabbit, which she called "Dust Bunny", spent most of his time under the bed. He would come out to use the litter box and eat, and then return to lying under the bed. When I looked under the bed, he reminded me of how I felt after a large meal of cooked food. Dust Bunny lived on a diet consisting of about 50 percent dry pellets (these were pork free, as most rabbit pellets have pork in them) and 50 percent conventional produce.
After a month, I asked Dust Bunny's caretaker if I could try an experiment. I would feed the rabbit 100 percent raw foods. These consisted of mostly weeds and some leafy greens from a nearby organic garden, all of which I picked with my own hands, so I knew that they were fresh. He started to eat ravenously at first, sometimes eating a whole grocery bag full of greens in one day. He also became much more active, and after a week or so, would run up to me as I entered the room and put his head on my foot. The ravenous eating binge slowed after a few weeks and stopped after a month, when he began to eat a more normal amount for his size (4 pounds) .
His behavior became increasingly more outgoing. It became so that I had to look down with every step because he would run under my feet, and he hopped around the room begging for affection. After about 5 weeks, he started to venture out of the bedroom for the first time in his life (though the door had always been open)! His caretaker was very pleased, and said, "This is what I thought having a house rabbit was going to be like!" First he began walking down the hallway. A few days later he was trotting, and soon after that he was running down the hallway and finally running and leaping through the air! Finally, Dust Bunny, whom I gave the name Rascal, began frequenting the living room. Some mornings he would trot circles around me as I did my morning yoga set.
One evening there were many guests in the apartment. Rascal entered the living room and came to see what was going on. One of the guests asked, with full sincerity, "Did you get a new rabbit?" "No", my friend replied, "we just put him on a new diet". The guest said, "I took care of that rabbit once for a week and this is the first time I've actually seen him." Another guest commented, "I've slept over here lots of times and never saw the rabbit come out from under the bed before." I smiled and knew that the raw wild food diet had worked.
Many thousands of laboratory animals have been experimented on and they all prove the same point. Raw foods provide a health-promoting diet and an all-cooked-food diet promotes disease.
In India, Sir Robert McCarrison fed monkeys a cooked version of their usual diet. All the monkeys developed colitis. Post mortem examinations revealed gastric and intestinal ulcers.
In Switzerland, O. Stiner fed guinea pigs a cooked version of their usual diet. These animals quickly succumbed to anemia, scurvy, goiter, dental cavities, and degeneration of the salivary glands. When 10 CCs of pasteurized milk was added to their daily diet, they developed arthritis as well. Calves that are fed pasteurized milk (as contrasted with raw milk) die because of the nutrient loss and other changes in the chemical structure of the milk that pasteurization causes. Experiments have been done in zoos with carnivorous animals. They replaced the raw meat with leftover cooked restaurant meat. The animals in the experiments died. The nutrient loss and structural changes could not support life in these animals.
More animal studies are included under "Enzymes" in Chapter 1 and under "Reproduction" in this chapter.