In 1900 the published life expectancy for Americans was 46. Rural persons may have been officially counted only on reaching school age and shortly after death, with infant and young-child mortality statistically ignored. When I was a kid, in the early 1930s, two of my young friends lost their fathers to pneumonia within a year. Early in the 20th century deaths from infectious diseases, heart disease, and gastrointestinal problems were much more common among younger American adults than they are today. They come from Detroit, Hamburg, Yokohama, etc., and are called automobiles.
Humans accept a certain mortality rate in return for the convenience of using passenger cars.
Animals have made a similar arrangement, not for convenience, but to ensure their very survival. I appreciate the diversity of the issues your magazine covers and the practicality of much of the information it provides. Perhaps I am being too fussy, but I've noticed a disparity in the articles. Please gear the magazine at least a bit more toward the prevalent health and healthcare concerns of educated consumers, for whom Alar and the Three Mile Island hoopla are history. Hence, PfH covers such objects and sources of such misguidance.