Belinda, CLA and grain, was Re: pastured vs. range-fed

September 15, 2002

Remember Belinda just as rancidity and freshness are issues for

grains fed to humans they are also an issue in livestock feeding.

When feeding mature corn and such these are not fresh grains and

likely to be in a highly oxidized state. While I am by no means a

livestock expert I'm comfortable stating that your guys feeding on

fresh green should not be a problem at all.

DMM

> In a message dated 9/14/02 10:31:58 AM Central Daylight Time,

> aubinparrish@y... writes:

>

> >

> > Sorry if someone else has already replied to this, I haven't had

> > time to keep up with this list. Belinda, Dr. Tilak Dhiman at

Utah

> > State is a leading researcher on CLA in the meat and milk of

> > grassfed ruminants, he says he's found that grain *at any time*

> > in the life of a meat animal can significantly reduce the CLA

> > content of the meat. It doesn't come back even if the animal is

> > finished on pasture.

>

> Aubin,

>

> This seems a bit strange. We let our cows and goats into the wheat

and corn

> fields to finish off whatever we may have dropped or missed when we

> harvested. What you are saying is that they have a significatnly

reduced

> amount of CLA? We have " wild " grains growing all over our

pastures... There

> must be something I'm not getting here.

>

> Belinda

>

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