what cows eat...was Treating Symptoms/Supplementing Diet

[Guest guest]

Generally corn is fed to the cows to help get them through the

winter. We did the same for our goats. It puts some weight on them,

helping to insulate them from the cold.

Corn is also fed to cows prior to slaughtering. It fattens them up

and makes the meat more tender and taste better.

 

Left to their own devices, cows will eat corn if they can get to it.

Ask any cattleman that has had their fences torn down by cows to get

into the corn field, or in the feed room of the barn.

 

Belinda

 

 

 

>

> Yes, left to their own devices, cows eat no grain at all ... they

cannot

> digest it. They are designed to digest grasses and leaves ... soft

material

> filled with water.

>

> Best,

> Elchanan

> _____

>

> rawfood [rawfood ] On

Behalf Of

> Janet FitzGerald

> Monday, July 02, 2007 12:56 PM

> rawfood

> [Raw Food] what cows eat...was Re: Treating

Symptoms/Supplementing

> Diet

>

>

> I've been reading " Fast Food Nation " and it appears that cows eat

more

> than just grain. During a good part of the last century, and perhaps

> still today, cows were fed grain, blood, shit, pigs, and other

cows.

> And, the worst meat made into burger was/is sold to the public

> schools. This book was written a few years ago, so I'm not sure what

> the current policies are today. I suspect few of us need to worry

> about these sad facts, unless your kiddo is eating the school

lunches.

>

> Janet

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

yuk,

 

I have a hard time with the visuals of what Janet describes from the book " fast

food nation " . yuk. I DON'T LIKE THINKING ABOUT IT. I really wish that the topic

would be covered in high school to begin students on an educational journey to

the reality of the meat they eat. Perhaps that would have a bigger impact on

society as a whole?

 

I don't know if I want to read the book. NOR do I like the idea of how poor

farm animals are killed for food. As an animal lover it hurts me to see any

animal suffer. Even to educate myself, I can't watch those types of things. I

hate that it happens, I hate that there are people in this world that would

subject any animal to this type of cruelty. Kinda seems like the " mad cow

disease " might be a way of God saying " stop doing this " . I don't know. I just

wish there were a better way of getting those people to do those type things. I

don't know that there is a big enough movement to get farmers to change their

ways of killing the poor animals. It's all about money.

 

 

Jeannie

 

your time is the most cherished gift of all, tomorrow is promised to no one.

 

 

 

 

Belinda <MistyBlueTN

rawfood

Monday, July 2, 2007 3:28:35 PM

[Raw Food] what cows eat...was Re: Treating Symptoms/Supplementing Diet

 

 

I think that is the commercial cow market doing this.

 

My understanding that feeding the cattle this kind of diet

is what is what causes mad cow disease. It is a totally

inappropriate and unhealthy diet for a cow.

 

Belinda

 

 

> I've been reading " Fast Food Nation " and it appears that cows eat

more

> than just grain. During a good part of the last century, and

perhaps

> still today, cows were fed grain, blood, shit, pigs, and other

cows.

> And, the worst meat made into burger was/is sold to the public

> schools. This book was written a few years ago, so I'm not sure

what

> the current policies are today. I suspect few of us need to worry

> about these sad facts, unless your kiddo is eating the school

lunches.

>

> Janet

> rawfood , jeannieh h <jeannieh99@> wrote:

>

> Belinda, you wrote: " I would feel like a cow. Just eating and

pooping

> all day long. sigh "

>

> oh MN, You provided me with the " laugh of the day. " LOL I do feel

> like a cow often times.....I wish I could eat the same old thing

like

> they do and they don't get bored with it!

>

> Jeannie your time is the most cherished gift of all, tomorrow is

> promised to no one.

>