Wild Animals and Cancer

Many animals, freshly killed in the wild, have been tested, and most of them have never been found to have cancer. While researching this topic, you will find many people that say animals get cancer, and that is true, but you will only find it under three circumstances:
1) The animal is partaking in modern mankind's diet, whether it be a pet, zoo animal, or digging through trash.
2) The animal is prevented from getting the nutrients it requires. For example, farmers' cows sometimes get cancer on the ears and tongue during the winter, but when the first fresh grasses of spring come up, their cancer disappears.
3) The animal is effected by mankind's toxins and pollutions in its environment. For example, green sea turtles have been found in their habitat dead with cancer, but they were also swimming in toxic waters from pollutants.
(See Live Science, "Cancer Kills Wild Animals Too," June 24, 2009 [www.livescience.com]; See also Christine Lepisto, "Cancers Threaten Wild Animal Populations," June 24, 2009 [www.treehugger.com])

African lions are often portrayed on TV killing their prey and eating the meat, but rarely do they focus on the preditor's tendency to eat the high-nutrient-content organs (liver, heart, etc - which contain anti-cancer nutrients) before they eat the meat of their catch. Often, ferocious animals, like lions and tigers, tear through the flesh and meat to get the nutrients they need from the organs before they will feast on the rest, and not one of these animals, freshly killed in the wild, has ever been found with cancer.
(See EcoTravel Tourist Information [www.ecotravel.co.za], "African Lion Hunting Habits in South Africa," 2005; See also Missouri Departement of Conservation [mdc.mo.gov], "Wildlife Sightings - Mountain Lions," 2010)


Many people often think that lions only eat meat because of what they have seen on television, but this is simply not true. "Little Tyke" was a lioness used in many hollywood movies, and she absolutely refused to eat, or have anything to do with, meat. There was once a $1,000 reward offered for anyone who could trick Little Tyke into eating meat, and all people who tried failed. Lions, as well as other ferocious animals, are not "meat-only" creatures, but kill and eat their prey because they have to do so to survive, and they feast on those creatures organs that will give them the nutritional content they need to be healthy.
(See Georges H. Westbeau, Little Tyke: The True Story of a Gentle Vegetarian Lioness, Theosophical Publishing House, 1986, ISBN: 9780835606059)