Re: A cure for diabetes from 1806?

"TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:

Barley, oats, wheat, triticale, lupins, peas, etc. These are more
commonly used for cattle feed than corn.

Here (the US) they are used extensively during the final week or two before
slaughter, and in a phasing-out system during the calf's first week at the
feedlot. Partly, this is to kill off pathogens in the rumin that cannot
survive when the corn-induced hyperacidosis is normalized by the relatively
more normal diet.

Most countries other than the US have strict regulations on the use of
hormones and anti-biotics for cattle used in the food chain. And those
cost money, so any feedlot or producer worth his salt will avoid those
as much as possible. There are other ways to manage cattles health
without using meds.

Of course. Grass prairies and pastures are wonderful and almost eliminate
the need for antibiotics (and do eliminate the abnormal corn diet). But
feedlot animals being stuffed with number 2 field corn (manufactured into
feed by adding a bit of fiber from grains, plus hormones to shorten the
time-to-market from 4 or 5 years down to 14 months) suffer from diseases due
to the abnormal acid of the rumin, inactivity, and standing
shoulder-to-shoulder with their pen-mates in one-anothers' wastes. The usual
rule that antibiotics only be used in case of illness means that nearly all
of the feedlot animals get antibiotics almost all the time.

I am not employed in the meat industry, I just know several producers.
All of them family operations.

In my book, feedlots ought to be criminal. They cause enormous suffering to
millions of animals and then inflict suffering on the consumers of the meat
from those stressed, sick, poisoned creatures.
--
Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA jchinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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