if he's so good, why didn't he go to harvard or at least cornell?

I think for all that education she should know more about the dangers
of preservatives.  Read that article I linked about the Thiamine
deficiency.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&...

http://www.catvet.com.au/articles/thiamine_deficiency_pdf.pdf
(requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader which you can get here:
http://www.download.com/Adobe-Acrobat-Reader/3000-2378_4-10349804.html?tag=pdp_prod)

The danger is very real either directly or indirectly.  Many companies
use these additives and preservatives to hide the foul odour of their
foods.  Even so, I still find the smell of these commercial foods foul.
I heated half a portion of canned wet food(opened the previous day) to
slightly warm when I was still feeding commercial food and found the
odour unbelievably foul.  I think that was the day I decided to
research more and see what is really going on.  I'm glad I did.  Would
you eat something that smelled so foul?  Does it look and smell like
something wholesome and nutritious to you?

She also seems to think under her FAQ's section that cooking meat makes
the nutrients more readily available than raw meat.  Maybe so for some
nutrients but you also kill most of the others in doing so.  Cooking
makes meat protein more digestible for humans but cats don't have this
problem, they eat meat raw as their nature intended.  Such a small
snippet for such an important claim.  She fails to mention that cooking
meat actually destroys most of those nutrients and to compensate
commercial foods add vitamins.  So what you are essentially feeding
your pet is nutrient deficient foods with an excess of vitamin
supplements to make up for the losses, and perhaps a preservative that
is not mentioned that may actually destroy some of the vitamins they
add in.

Her site is also a .com site meaning she is making money. She doesn't
give the whole story regardless.  Another example; she says in her myth
section that bones offer no nutritional advantage.  They are full of
calcium, phosphorus, and minerals.  More importantly they are naturally
balanced to be in the right proportions.  These are the right levels
that the cats have evolved for.  How does she propose they get these
nutrients, via the use of vitamins that don't take the specific needs
of cats into consideration?    Also where is the mention of the benefit
to the jaw muscles from chewing the bones, and also the dental benefits
of chewing raw bones?  Her education and opinions seem very one sided
or incomplete to me.

When my cat makes a kill she eats the bones and all.  I see her natural
behaviour with her natural prey.  That speaks volumes for me more than
any person's opinion, regardless of their education.  A human cannot
fully comprehend the complexities of a natural system.  Instead of
changing it, work with it.

Perhaps part of her recommended diet is commercial food and thus gets
some of these benefits:

"There are also considerable kickbacks vets, vet schools, and breeders
can receive from recommending a commercial diet.

And most importantly, their advertising campaigns are slick, and tend
to make people feel guilty if they feed any other way.

And people are suckers for good advertising.

Let me make this very clear to you, I make no money from recommending a
raw diet, so you can be assured, by making such recommendations, I get
no financial kickbacks, nor will ever seek any. As a breeder of dogs I
could make a small fortune by letting my dogs be in dog food
commercials, and by selling on commercial dog foods.

I only recommend feeding raw because I want your dogs to be getting the
diet that will make them the healthiest that they can possibly be. "

-This person makes some good points.  Her site, about dogs(though this
part is equally true for cats), is here:

http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html

I don't want to make any accusations, but I would say don't take the
opinion of one person as the basis for what you do.  You can't discern
properly their true motives, especially when they are trying to profit.

And who knows, perhaps some of these people have further vested
interests in these commercial companies such as company stock.

Your cats may have lived a long time, but were they as healthy as they
could have been? Did they have to drink excessive amounts of water to
make up for the deficiency in their diet? Were they killing and eating
an auxiliary source of food on their own such as bugs and mice?

The dry food doesn't help their teeth at all, raw meat and bones are
abrasive enough to clean their teeth without carbohydrates from grains
that plaque feeds on.

Cats have strong acids in their stomach that are stronger than our own.

You don't have to be overly worried about bacteria from raw meat,
their stomach juices will kill it.   If you want to be extra cautious,
wash the meat before you feed it to  them.

Wild cats eat primarily raw meat and bones as nature intended and they
don't need dental cleaning.  Feeding solely raw meat is not good and
that is why I included bones.  The bones if raw will clean their teeth
with abrasion.  If cooked, the bones can be a health hazard due to
splintering.

The reason why your cats live so long is because they have such a
sheltered environment where food is always available and the elements
cannot reach them.  It's also not clear whether these cases are of cats
that were fed just dry food or a mixture of dry food, wet food, and
wild food.

Here's another good link in favor of raw food for humans and pets:
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/rawfreshproduce.html

dry + wet = obese cat

Again, there is a complete lack of details.

When was the meat purchased, what condition was it in?  Also, was the
meat left out in exposure to air for extended period of time where the
bacteria had time to multiply and develop before being fed to the cat?
Was the meat washed?  Was this human grade meat or of lesser quality?
How was it handled and in what kind of environment, clean or dirty?

There are dangers in any diet.  We just have to minimize the risks
associated with either diet.  I would say look to nature as the basis
for the diet, not to humans that cannot fully understand the
complexities of a natural system.

Since you have a pet, and it won't have wild fresh food daily, you
should try to mimic their natural diet as closely as possible while
minimizing the dangers associated with anything unnatural.

Cats are carnivores not omnivores.  They don't have the digestive
tracts to fully digest grains and vegetables.  They have been eating
meat for millions of years as the basis of their diet.

Why now since they have been recently domesticated, would we expect
them to suddenly be able to eat grains and vegetables?  They are not
rabbits or deer, they are cats.  It makes no sense, and that is what a
dry food diet is based on, ignorance and profit margins.

Thanks for the link on raw fish, I will read it and examine it.

Actually they probably would I don't know if you re aware of this but Fish
is not a natural food source for cats which originate from the desert
ancestries