Originally Posted by IMSA_Racing_Fan
A member posted a sad thread on his dog dying of advanced cancer. I commented that it is strange how pets are contracting cancer. I don't recall that being common 30 or more years ago and suggested it was not an issue 100 years back. Got some push back on that comment. Does anyone really believe this soup of pesticides, herbicides, and petrochemical products we live in has NOT affected the cancer rates in animals?
30-40 years ago, far fewer people took care of their pets like to day. So yes they died of cancer, you just did not know why. Very few people had x-rays done on pets like today.
Pets die now, and you know why. More dogs live inside than when i was a kid, so less snakebites etc. 100 years ago there was no heartworm treatment so lots of dogs probably died from that before they lived long enough to die from cancer.
Pesticides today are safer than when i was a kid. DDT was in use as well as Chlorodane , and Diazinon. Corn and other seeds were coated with a pink Lead Arsenic compound.
Gas had mmt.
So the pesticides today are nothing like what as in use 30-40 years go.