I'm not sure what that has to do with our discussion of corn as a predominant component in cattle feed. Cattle have evolved over millions of years to eat grass. Corn is fed to them at feedlots because its incredibly high energy content bulks them up quickly and cheaply for slaughter.
But the bovine digestive system isn't designed to consume that much corn. It leads to bloating and nearly constant low-grade infection such that prophylactic antibiotics are routinely added to their feed. I'm not saying that corn is bad, I'm saying it shouldn't be fed to cattle in the quantities we see nowadays. Cheers, frank On October 31, 2015 10:43:35 AM EDT, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/26/corn-health-myths-nutrition_n_5591977.html >http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=90 >http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5687/2 >Dan Matyola >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > >On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:14 AM, knarf <[email protected]> >wrote: >> According to a Young Cattleman on an agriculture propaganda site: >> >> "Corn is the predominant grain used because it is a great source of >starch (carbohydrates) utilized for energy. Other grains used include >oats, barley, sorghum, distillers (brewers) grains, and by-products of >numerous grain and fiber milling processes. These are referred to as >the concentrate portion of the ration. >> >> Corn or wheat silage is a very common feed ration ingredient to be >used. It can account for the forage and concentrate portion of the >diet. Silage is the entire plant (seed and stalk), harvested in an >earlier stage with higher moisture, then stored in an anaerobic >environment (without oxygen) where fermentation occurs and breaks down >the plant cell walls." >> >> That's for beef cattle, anyway. >> >> And even if there were soy, it's hardly natural for ruminant. >> >> Cheers, >> >> frank >> >> On October 30, 2015 3:10:27 PM EDT, "P.J. Alling" ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>Soybeans is a large part of animal feed, corn hardly has enough >>>nourishment. One of the problems of the native American cultures was >>>lack of large domesticable animals, and suitable easily domesticable >>>grasses. No culture that had a choice would have chosen Corn, and >the >>>only tractable large ruminant in the Americas was, well there wasn't >>>one. >> >> -- >> >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
