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I use canola oil in my wok, works fine, pretty tasteless. It's true that olive oil won't do well in high heat. Mary

To further divert this thread: my complaints about dairy products at the store. Buttermilk and sour cream, both should be cultured milk, period. Not with several added ingredients, one brand here calls itself 'Dairy Pure", an insult, if you ask me. 'Milk' comes from female mammals, not oats...

It's not about adding fat to the diet, it's about substituting fat to reach dietary caloric needs instead of some of the carbohydrates. Adding high fats to an already balanced diet isn't what's needed, because those added fats also add calories. Mary

Sadly, for me, the 'straight' peanuts only peanut butter, which separates and has to be remixed every day, is a pain to use. Definitely better, in theory, but one of those things I just find irritating to use. It tastes better too... And closer to the topic, one of the reasons we grow our own...

I do love bacon, but is is a processed food product! To be totally accurate, 'processed' includes any change in the food item from 'raw', so cooking is also processing. I totally agree that junk foods are not good, and we do have a pretty good idea what we are talking about there. Humans do...

Yes, food waste cooked as directed. And not old rotten/ moldy stuff either. Mary

Public health: modern sanitation and vaccines, then antibiotics, all have made a huge difference in average life expectancy. Mary

And our recent decline in life expectancy is related to the Covid pandemic. Maybe also in the increase in obesity. And nowhere near life expectacy 100 years ago, recent history. Mary

Every few years another crisis! Products that were 'safe', later found to be not so good. Seems like we aren't winning this fight. We do the best we can, and are happy that our life expectancy is so much better than in the good old days! Mary

So true, off topic. Relevant though. Mary

Ten and twelve years age pretty good for any large breed dog! Our best, that much missed GSHP, hit 14, in part because of chemo and radiation for his bone cancer. So worth it for him! Second oldest was one of our Chessies, aged 13. Little dogs tend to live longer, but we haven't had little...

Dobermans are tricky too: cardiomyopathy and hepatitis. And our one mutt, years ago, dropped dead of a rare heart condition at about 4 years of age. Not a good day! And I wonder if he had many old relatives? Our longest lived dog, a GSHPointer, had many old relatives when we visited his...

This study was not about their diets!

Dogs who look like 'dogs' rather than ??? tend to be much healthier generally. BUT the canine genome is pretty tight overall, and individual breeds are even more inbred, so genetic issues come up way more often. And selecting for traits not compatible with health, as pushed in faces, bulging...

Dog food as I saw it in the 1050's and early 1960's included dry dog food, canned horse meat, and table scraps. Don't ask me to go back to canned horse meat! High egg producing hens in the early 1900's maybe produced 100 eggs annually! And farms included multiple species and their feeds, and a...

Here small cockerels of any color were taken by hawks more frequently. This winter for the first time we lost two white standard hens, and the first was seen taken by a Cooper's hawk, who was smaller than the hen! Mary

I don't expect my chickens to self regulate their diet from individual ingredients, given that we live in the 'frozen north', our birds are not 'original type' breeds, and offering 'original' ingredients isn't practical, or possible here. So we are fine with offering them a good base diet, and...

Physical activity matters! We can't change our ancestry, but we can move more and eat better... Mary

One of my mares did that, she got into an adjacent field accidently. She survived, happily, but not a fun experience. Mary

Chickens and 'pasture': there's no uniform standard here! What grows on my property, seasonally, isn't the same as yours, even a mile down the road. And there's not a lot for my birds when there's snow and frozen ground! Also, birds who produce 200+ eggs each year aren't the same as birds...