ABSTRACT
In the early days of safflower development in the United States, it was much easier to find the results of safflower meal feeding trials with beef or dairy cattle, poultry, and hogs than to find any research pertaining to the feeding of safflower products. The reason was that feeding trials were much more conclusive than trials that involved human beings. While it was impossible to ask the animals their opinions about the feed being tried, the animals in a trial were usually slaughtered afterward, so that very precise measurements of the trial’s results were available. Except in wartime pathology studies, data concerning the feeding of human beings must of necessity come from the interpretation of secondary reactions or from deductions made by tests on laboratory animals.
