Thorsten Schier wrote:
>
> Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD schrieb:
> > Don Kirkman wrote:
> >
> >>It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
> >>article >:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Don Kirkman wrote:
> >>
> >>>>It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
> >>>>article >:
> >>
> >>>>>>>Cows eat only salad and grow to be several hundred of pounds.
> >>
> >>>>>>Cows don't eat salad at all; they eat grasses (pasture grasses, various
> >>>>>>types of hay), legumes (particularly alfalfa), and cereals,
> >>>>>>(particularly barley).
> >>
> >>>>>You just described salad :-)
> >>
> >>>>So how often do you eat a salad of Sudan grass, timothy or alfalfa hay,
> >>>>rolled barley, and meadow grasses, and maybe some dried shredded sugar
> >>>>beet pulp or cottonseed cake?
> >>
> >>>When I eat salad, I typically add alfalfa, cereals, and grasses (herbs)
> >>>to romaine and iceberg lettuce leaves.
> >>
>
> Herbs are _not_ grasses, at least the herbs usually eaten by humans are
> quite unlike grass from a nutritional point of view (and from a
> botanical point of view as well).
>
> >>Yes, and cows don't eat lettuce at all.
> >
> >
> > They do eat romaine lettuce if you provide it.
> >
>
> Cows also eat meal made from dead cows if you provide it. This is how
> BSE became a problem. However this does not proof that carcass meal is
> in any way comparable to the cow's usual diet, namely grass and hay.
> What cows might or might not eat if forced to do so has nothing to do
> with their natural diet.
>
> >
> >>Nor do you make your main diet
> >>alfalfa, grasses, or hay. You add alfalfa *sprouts*, which cows do not
> >>eat, and I doubt you add raw barley or hay, which cows eat regularly.
> >
> >
> > Cows can eat cooked barley.
> >
>
> See above.
>
> >
> >>No matter how much you rename things to match your theories, salad and
> >>fodder remain two separate things.
> >
> >
> > No matter how you try to refute it, there is nothing wrong with calling
> > what cows eat "salad" for purposes of enlightening folks that for losing
> > weight it is not what we eat but how much we eat that matters. The cows
> > aren't bothered by it, so why should you?
> >
>
> As shown above, cows eat next to anything if forced to. This does in no
> way mean that all theses things are all that similar.
>
> Btw., cows are proof that is _does_ matter what you eat. It is not
> without reason that today many cows are fed food they wouldn't eat as
> wild animals like carcass meal, fish meal or corn, because they gain
> weight faster and give more milk on such an unnatural diet.
>
> >
> >>You would not survive on a cow's
> >>diet since your stomach cannot process the cellulose--unless you have a
> >>four-chambered stomach like cattle do.
> >
> >
> > Actually, that would depend on the actual composition of the diet.
> > Cellulose is fiber and though indigestible is not toxic.
>
> Don Kirkman has already provided evidence that grass is usually regarded
> as unfit for human food.
>
> It is not without reason that humans don't usually eat grass although it
> is available in large quantities in most parts. By the way, the
> cellulose is not the only obstacle for humans trying to eat grass. Grass
> also contains large quantities of silicate. Eating larger aomunts of
> grass will soon enable your dentist to buy a new car (that is if you
> don't die from starvation or intestinal obstruction first). Animals
> subsisting on grass need teeth adapted to this kind of food and even
> then the tearing down of the teeth is considerable and sometimes the
> time until the teeth are gone is what limits the animals life (this can
> happen to elephants, although they have several really large molars that
> come into service successivly when the ones previously used are gone).
> Cows solve this problem by ruminating.
"A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the
ends of the earth."
Would be more than happy to "glow" and chat about this and other things
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