In article >, Todd >
wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 06:18 PM, W. Baker wrote:
> > . > wrote:
> > : Julie > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Something went wrong here with my post and all my material seems to not
> > have come throughat all. It was a rather complicated series of comments ,
> > mostly to Julie about , not cites, but where I learned much of hte
> > material about homnivores, Mad COw disease and feeding animals downed
> > animals, etc from reading Newspapers and listening to news on teh TV and
> > Radio(Mostly NPR) as well as material I remember learning some 60 years
> > ago in HS biology. I also learned about the harm that corn, actually a
> > perfectly good food for non-diabetics if eaten within reason, is a
> > terrible food that cannot be digested by cows. It tears up their guts.
> > this information I read , in both Omnivore's dilemma by Polard and Michael
> > S---? book on the cattle industry, but i forget the name(senior moment-it
> > will come to me in the middle of the night, causing me to lose sleep:-)
You may be thinking Michael Pollan in both instances.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/ma...?pagewanted=al
l&src=pm
> >
> > I interleafed it, but none of it seems to have gotten through. No idea
> > why.
> >
> > Wendy
>
> Hi Wendy,
>
> Rats. I adore your writing.
>
> The mad cow thing is disgusting. What made them think they
> could turn herbivores into cannibals?
They did. Slaughter house scraps, and meat unsuitable for human
consumption are added as a protein source to chicken feed. Some falls
onto the straw litter in the chickens coups, and the litter is is then
feed to the cows to complete the cycle. Grazing cows are also know to
eat small birds. Odd behavior for an herbivore, don't you think?
<
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...012/11/deer_ea
t_meat_herbivores_and_carnivores_are_not_so_clearl y_divided.html>
<
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzool...ry-in-cows-and
-deer/>
> Bad enough they
> stand in their own scat (poop) in feed lots. Herbivore's
> are conveyor belts: they walk and the grass (cellulose)
> goes in one end and the scat goes out the other. They
> never stand in their own scat. (Then birds eat the bugs
> and then it decomposes into the soil and the grass
> grows back. Full circle.)
"Grass," so understood, is the foundation of the intricate food chain
Joel Salatin has assembled at Polyface, where a half dozen different
animal species are raised together in an intensive rotational dance on
the theme of symbiosis. Salatin is the choreographer and the grasses are
his verdurous stage; the dance has made Polyface one of the most
productive and influential alternative farms in America.
łThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals˛
by Michael Pollan
<
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dile...als/dp/0143038
583/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206815576&sr=1-1>
(Available at a library near you)
>
> About three years ago, before I knew about T2, I grew some
> hybridized (for sugar content) corn. The crop bombed, but
> I did get about one meal out of it. It was very tasty,
> as is anything out of an organic garden. But, I do remember
> it was so sweet it was like eating candy.
And soon, because of GMOs, and hybrid plants, Monsanto, and their ilk
will control the food we eat. Next time you grow a garden, use "open
pollinated" seeds, and at least give yourself a chance to resist.
<http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/articles/monsanto.htm>
And here's how
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable
Gardeners,
by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy
<
http://www.amazon.com/Seed-Growing-T...rdeners/dp/188
2424581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238951517&sr=1-1>
(Available at the same library near you)
> Nice if they
> hybridized it for protein and fat. Fat chance. Not as
> addictive.
Oh, Cargill, or Archer Daniels Midland would find some way to screw it
up, all in the name of making a profit.
The more general term glucose syrup is often used synonymously with corn
syrup, since glucose syrup is in the United States most commonly made
from corn starch. Corn syrup is distinct from high-fructose corn syrup
(HFCS), which is created when corn syrup undergoes enzymatic processing,
producing a sweeter compound that contains higher levels of fructose.
Fructose (levulose) doesn't satiate as quickly as glucose (dextrose),
and you end up eating MORE.
>
> Senior moments have an upside. Every morning you get to eat new
> food, watch new movies, meet new people ... :-)
>
> -T
.. . . . and the farts turn wet.
Best leave "senior moments" for when you need someone to wipe the "Creme
of Wheat" off your chin.
--
Welcome to the New America.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg>
or
E Pluribus Unum
Next time vote Green Party