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Even in Cows: A Diet Designed By Nature Reduces Health Problems

Health & Wellness (tags: cows, diet, food, humans, natural, environment )

Michelle
- 127 days ago - naturalnews.com

An organic dairy farm in Vermont found a way to bring down their vet bills and raise cows with fewer health problems. The answer was simple enough; they started feeding the animals grasses, flax and alfalfa - or essentially what amounts to a more natural

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Karen S. (93)

Thursday July 2, 2009, 1:12 pm
Great article Michelle. Who'd a thunk!

Healthy cattle = happy cattle. Diet is just one way to ensure that. As for humans, I'm not sure North Americans are ready to eat a natural diet. It might make us too healthy, thus no need for industry that makes that trash they call convenience foods and no need for polished promotions to convince us it really is food.

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cowboss at wscc (80)

Thursday July 2, 2009, 6:32 pm
Thanx Michelle

But clean feed costs so much more than chicken feces and the consumers really do not seem to care about anything other than $$$$. Sorry, as strange as this sounds a natural diet will not happen, for the majority of Americas cows, any time soon. So very SAD!

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