Geez, I never said that Maize, (because corn is ambiguous), wasn't a
decent food, I like Maize, but it's pretty much the worst original
choice for a grain crop, and would never have been domesticated if the
natives of the Americas had a better choice.
It has a lot of advantages, /today/, after a couple of centuries of
selective breeding, and decades of scientific selective breeding, but
it's early disadvantages outweighed those advantages. Now It's actually
easy to grow,(it wasn't always), and it can double as a vegetable. The
kernels store a lot of energy either as starch or sugar. Yes, all
that's true. But it also puts a lot of energy into a) (for humans at
least), a large indigestible cob, and b) it is distinctly lacking in
protein compared to wheat, rye, and a other old world grain crops.
That modern Maize is also used as a vegetable, (many of which are
actually fruits, take the tomato for example), adds to it's versatility,
but, it falls short of those in vitamins and minerals. I never said
that corn was bad, just that given a choice the Indians would have
chosen something else.
Frank is right Corn is primary used in cattle feed to fatten Beef for
market quickly, unlike him I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
Any vet will tell you not to feed your pet a food with too much Maize
product. Maize is a treat,
Any individual or civilization who is forced to rely almost entirely on
Maize as a diet staple is at a disadvantage.
On 10/31/2015 10:43 AM, Daniel J. Matyola 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 <knarftheria...@gmail.com> 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" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>
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.
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