Allergies and Skin Problems in Cats - Cause and Natural Treatment

1. Pollution of our food chain and water with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, heavy metals, (aluminum, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead, selenium, nickel, iron, copper), PCP, etc. which are the result of contamination by agribusiness, industry, landfills, public consumer household and backyard uses of these chemicals. I am alarmed at the discovery I have made of the wide spread chronic heavy metal poisoning in all of the sick animals I have tested. I go into detail on this subject in Newsletter #8 Heavy Metal Contamination of the Food and Water Chain. Cats particularly are exposed to more mercury than most animals due to the heavy content of fish in commercial cat food. More of our oceans are becoming a dumping ground for heavy metals and fish are concentrators. Mercury is toxic in miniscule amounts- .03 mg% in man. It affects every cell in the body- including the brain and nervous system.

2. In addition to these chemicals are those chemicals deliberately added to the pet food products by the pet food industry, preservative chemicals that extend the shelf life: PABA, sodium bisulfate, pyrophosphate, BHT, Ethoxyquin; and Alum (aluminum) to prevent moisture in dry kibbled pet foods; aniline (petroleum source) food dyes for eye appeal for the pet owner not the animal: red, yellow, blue lake, etc. These and other tongue-twister ingredients listed on the packaged goods are put in our own people food too. I have found Aluminum goes to the brain and nervous system, (thereby affecting every cell in the body), of animals and has been incriminated as a contributing cause of Alzheimer’s Syndrome and Early Senility in man.

Ethoxyquin was developed by Monsanto Corp. to be used as a rubber sealant, and then used to preserve animal fat and animal byproducts, in both human and animal consumption products. It is one of the WORST chemical additives I can think of. It produces infertility and high mortality of newborn in dogs, cats, cattle and sheep. It has produced horribly malformed offspring in dogs and cattle showing any number of abnormalities such as: aborted or live newborn with cleft palates, hydrocephalus, missing tails, legs and sex organs, only 3 legs, the stomach and intestines growing outside of the body, and one or three eyes formed in the head. This is documented in case histories of dog breeders in this country and in the Italian Press with pictures. The Italian farmers begged our President (Bush at the time) to ban the use of Ethoxyquin in livestock feed supplements exported abroad.

There is documentation gathered in this country showing the relationship of Ethoxyquin to infertility and cancer: of the liver, (one dog was 6 months old), of the mouth and cancer developed in both hips of a German Shepherd puppy. Ethoxyquin has been incriminated in the development of skin dermatitis, and allergies in dogs. The FDA is still approving Ethoxyquin, although ironically, the agency first banned its use due to its toxicity, but lobbying in our federal Congress put pressure on the FDA to approve its use. I fought an unsuccessful 3-year fight originating in August 1992, with the FDA over Ethoxyquin’s use in any food. I have published my efforts in Diane Steine’s book, Natural Healing for Dogs and Cats. Today Ethoxyquin is still used in both animal and human consumption products. It is used to preserve carotene and antioxidants Vitamin A and E which are fat soluble, and for the prevention of organic peroxides. It is used in chili powder and paprika but you won’t see it on the label. That is what is so frightening, WHAT IS NOT LISTED ON THE INGREDIENT LABELS. For many years now some foods have been preserved by Cobalt radiation: bananas, strawberries, and California raised chickens that I know of, but there are probably more.

3.Radiation of any kind is destructive. These are toxic energy fields passed on and affect the consumer of the treated food. If it can kill worms, eggs, insects, bacteria, etc. which are complex organisms, what do you think it is doing to the body’s cells, which are simple structures? Radiation is cumulative; add to this the increased ultraviolet radiation to the skin due to decreased ozone protection of our atmosphere, and the number of X-rays a body has been exposed to in a lifetime the resultant dosage can be much more than what is considered “safe” by the governmental regulatory standards.

Now we have "genetically engineered" varieties of plants that are supposed to be parasite and frost resistant; but has there been any in-depth studies at the energetic level of what these "food" are doing to the electromagnetic energy fields of the body’s organs and immune system? What is the nutritional value of these foods? You wont find this on the label either, nor those growth hormones, antibiotics and vaccinations given the meat producing livestock that went into that pet food, or our own food. Another horrible thought-I don’t know of any scientific studies on multiple chemical and radiation toxicity affects in the animal or human. What happens when you combine the food preservatives, food coloring, 20 or 30 different pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides, radiation and any number of heavy metals? I found one scientific paper testing the affects of two chemicals being used by agribusiness and golf courses: this study had combined one fungicide with 2,4,D (an herbicide) and found it increased the toxicity of 2,4,D ten fold! This is the Real World, not some isolated sterile, controlled laboratory testing one chemical at a time. Dow Chemical and others, are developing newer and stronger insecticides every week to try to keep up with the losing battle of combating faster evolving resistant strains of organisms.

This race by the chemical companies is outstripping the ability of the FDA to test the toxic affects of these chemicals. Many, untested chemicals are being released to the public for sale in your friendly grocery store and nursery every day. The new science of Biogenetics is producing strains of species plants unknown in history. They are splicing genes into grain seeds to survive multiple sprayings of fungicides and pesticides that heretofore would kill the plant. All to win the race with the insects. But what is the increased chemical sprays doing to the consumer health???? To the environment, other species in the biosphere ???? Radiated, genetically engineered, and drug and chemically exposed foods are not identified in labeling and the consumer has no way of knowing, so the best alternative is buy organic!