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Farmer Feeds Doughnuts and Cookies to Cows

cheeseslave > 09 July 2010 > In food politics & farming >

Feeding Doughnuts & Cookies to Cows

Would you feed doughnuts and cookies to cows? This dairy farm does. What's more,

they are proud of it. The photo appeared here on

the " Dairy and Health on the Farm " blog (nutritiouswisconsinmilk.com).

The blog and farm are owned by Wisconsin dairy farmer, Laurie . posted

this comment below the photo:

Laurie said:

May 30, 2010 6:05 AM

Dairy cow nutrition is the same as people nutrition. People could not live

on one ingredient alone. In order for a person to

function properly there has to be a balanced diet of protein, carbohydrates and

fats, water and vitamins and minerals. Dairy cows

are the same as they need all of the same ingredients. Yes, donuts are part of

the carbohydrates mix as cows can metabolize this

product and use it for the needed energy to make wholesome milk. Bakery is part

of the simple sugars that can be turned into energy

when mixed with the other needed ingredients. Yes, it is true, everything in

moderation, even for the cow! Man can not survive on

grass alone!

Notice the girl's jacket - when you blow it up, you can see that it says

Monsanto:

Cows Lying in Manure

Not only are the cows fed nutritionally empty white flour bakery waste full of

trans fats, they are also living in a barn, not on

pasture.

But Laurie says they are comfortable, lying in manure and sawdust:

Laurie writes on her blog:

The crest Holsteins are very comfortable in their 82 X 184 compost dairy

barn. They are laying on the compost which is

manure and sawdust tilled three times a day. The sunlight is shining through the

opening on the top and the sun is coming through on

the sides. The girls have fresh feed available 24/7 and water too! What a life!

Hmm. doesn't look like a lot of sunlight to me.

Laurie , Raw Milk Hater

Laurie is also anti-raw milk. On a blog post about Wisconsin dairy farmers

pushing to make raw milk illegal, she posted the

following comment:

Laurie says:

May 14, 2010 at 9:56 pm

My son became very sick three years ago drinking the raw milk and ended

getting hospitalized for several days. It was traced to

the raw milk he drank from our dairy and it was something he wasn't used to. He

ended up getting Guillan-Barre syndrome that was

triggered by the campylobater bug that my son was diagnosed with. I want

Governor Doyle to VETO this bill because I don't want to

have to worry about what this could do to our dairy industry if there was a big

problem. Science proves that homogenization and

pasteurization is what we need to do to milk in order to kill the bacteria.

Is it any wonder her son got sick drinking the milk from their dairy?

Cows Eat Grass, Not Doughnuts

The truth is, cows were never meant to eat a diet of grains. Cows don't eat corn

and soybeans. Cows eat grass!

Cows on pasture, eating an exclusive diet of grass and hay, have produced

healthy raw milk for thousands of years.

It was only when we started feeding unnatural foods to cows that they started

producing unhealthy milk. Case in point, the swill

milk produced by cows in the 18th and 19th centuries. These cows were being fed

whiskey mash, the leftover grains from distilleries.

This milk ended up killing half of the babies in New York City (yes, a 50%

infant mortality rate).

The Untold Story of Milk

To read the whole story about factory swill milk and how pasteurization

seemingly solved the problem (not by fixing the milk but by

killing the germs in unhealthy milk), check out Dr. Ron Schmid's book, The

Untold Story of Milk (you can download two sample

chapters at that link).

I can't recommend this book highly enough. When I read it, it absolutely blew me

away and convinced me without a doubt that raw milk

from cows on pasture, eating grass, is the only way to go. I started buying raw

milk that week and have never looked back.

Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. Educate yourself about where healthy

milk comes from (hint: not from cows eating doughnuts).

This post is part of Fight Back Friday at Food Renegade.