They’re feeding the cows what?
According to a recent article in Reutersand another in CNN Money, corn-based feed has become too expensive for dairy and beef cows, so they are substituting junk food that would otherwise be thrown away — chocolates and candy such as gummy worms and marshmallows as well as cookies and crackers, hot chocolate mix, froot loops and other breakfast cereals, trail mix, orange peels, peanut butter, and ice cream sprinkles as well as (oh my!) hay. (Didn’t we learn as kids that cows are supposed to eat grass? What happened to grass?)
According to the articles, ice cream sprinkles seem to increase milk production by three pounds per cow per day, and the sweet stuff also helps to fatten the beef cattle, “without any ill effects to the cow.” Well, that may be accurate – after all, cows intended for beef don’t live too many years anyhow.
It makes me think, however … what the cow eats – including the additives – is incorporated into its milk and its meat. What is not incorporated, passes out into cow poop, which – if spread on fields – will enter the plants grown from it. If your child has had unexplained reactions to milk in the past couple of years; or unexplained reactions in general, you might want to try some milk and meat from animals that actually eat grass instead of sugar and Red 40.
Taken from www.feingold.org/enews/10-
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