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I got this from another list, but thought that you should know.

Morton

 

And you thought cows were just turned loose in the pasture...!

 

 

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1. - - WHAT DO COWS EAT?

" notmilk2002 " <notmilk

 

Were you under the mistaken impression that dairy cows ate grass?

 

The March 25, 2002 issue of Hoard's Dairyman (the dairy farmers

magazine) reveals a mixed menu of gourmet foods

in a dairy cow's diet, including chicken feathers, blood, pork, fish,

and soybeans.

 

Does that grass-fed cow portrayed on a carton of milk reflect what

really goes into moo-juice?

 

Better check what's in Elsie's medicine cabinet. Few cows ever see those

grassy fields. The page 232 Hoard's article reveals:

 

Nearly seventy-nine percent of cows are fed sodium bicarbonate. Greater

than half of the cows in America receive selenium,

yeast, and magnesium oxide. More than one third of America's dairy cows

take supplements including zinc methionine,

niacin, anionic salts, and tallow (rendered fat) from their deceased

brothers and sisters.

 

Forty-eight percent of dairy cows are fed roasted soybeans! Yummm.

Thirty-nine percent receive dried blood from their own brutally murdered

children, mothers, sisters, and aunts. Makes me sick to my stomach.

 

Fifteen percent receive ground-up fish. Ever see a cow working a trout

stream? Four percent of cows eat feathers. Don't let a cow near your

down comforter. Two percent of cows are fed pork.

 

All of those feathers and blood must make for a thirsty bovine. How much

water does a cow drink? Over two hundred pounds per day! Since the

average cow in America yields just 50 pounds of milk each day, where

does that other 150 pounds go? Multiply the 9,115,000 dairy cows in

America by 150 pounds of urine each day, by 365 days in a year, and

you'll end up with enough pee to fill the Potomic.

 

You'll end up with enough pee to fill every one of 50 million bathtubs

in America for two months so that each day they overflow. (One-half

trillion pounds!) Not to worry, though. The pee is actually filtered

into our groundwater, and you can hardly taste it when brushing your

teeth. (Perhaps you now understand why water is chlorinated,

fluoridated, and disinfected before you turn on your tap.)

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com