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How do cows get DHA or EPA?
Doesn't seem to matter:IIRC, men in particular can't convert ALA as well as women.
"Men benefited more than women from the vegetarian diet."
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'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
Both full of salt and also fat from being deep fried in oil, but the potato gets most of the blame.
Interesting thing about iceberg lettuce. It gets a bad rap from having a relatively lower nutrient content compared to other kinds of lettuce, but it has roughly the same nutrient profile. The reason it has a lower nutrient content is because it has about 2x more water content per serving.and iceberg lettuce...
Couldn't you just eat the grain fed beef and get omega-3 from elsewhere in your diet or supplements? I've never heard of people trying to get omega-3 from beef.
Grass fed beef certainly has a better fat profile than grain fed. It's also more likely to have been treated better during it's life.
I'd say the cost is well worth the benefit.
http://wellnessmama.com/4344/grass-fed-beef/Grass fed meat contains a range of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants including:
Carotenoids: Ever noticed the yellowish tint in the fat from grass fed meat after it cooks? This indicated the presence of Carotenoids (precursors to Vitamin A) which are found in green grass, especially rapidly growing green grass.
B-Vitamins: Red meat is also a great source of B vitamins, especially vitamin B-12, which plays an important role in fertility, mental health, muscle health and heart health.
Vitamin D: Red meat contains high levels of an especially absorbable form of Vitamin D that appears to increase blood levels faster than synthetic Vitamin D or vitamin D in dairy.
Iron: Red meat is a well known source of Iron, which is especially beneficial for pregnant women or those who are anemic.
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
I wasnt aware of the Vitamin D in meat but the reason its better is because its not a synthetic cookie-cutter molecule.. There are over 950 isomers of Vitamin D and just like the carotenes the grassfed nature of the animal means a wide spectrum of various vitamin Ds will exist.. (along with all sorts of complementary nutrition that allow everything to be assimilated and absorbed)
- See more at: http://www.westonaprice.org/health-t....0TMF0mg7.dpufCows on pasture typically live through eight to ten lactations (or births) for a total of ten to 12 years. Cows in confinement, fed grain and soybeans, average 1.8 lactations. When they become unable to produce milk, or when their ankles can no longer hold up on the cement floors, they are shipped off to the butcher. About 25 percent of the meat consumed in America comes from these “downer” cows. The problem of downer cows in confinement dairies is increasing, even though antibiotics, drugs and nutrient supplements are routinely added to animal feed. We hear that in some confinement dairies, the typical cow is milked through one long lactation and then slaughtered. This eats into profits and has the vets throwing up heir hands in defeat.
Soil specialist Jerry Brunetti6 explains why the way cows are fed today causes them to suffer from a range of health problems. Dairy cows are fed grains and soybeans, which have high caloric and nitrogen values. Sometimes rations even include bakery waste, such as out-of-date donuts, candy and pastries. These foodstuffs upset the delicately balanced ecosystem in the cow’s rumen. As rumen microbes digest the foods eaten by the cow, they produce waste products which inhibit the growth of other microbes. One of these metabolic wastes, acetic acid (vinegar), is used as an energy source by cattle. But the waste from microbial digestion of starches—like corn and bakery waste—is lactic acid, which has no value to ruminant. It also lowers the pH in the rumen, causing acidosis. The colostrum (first milk) of such acidic cows has very few antibodies because they are immunosuppressed.
Another serious consequence of grain feeding is that cows on grain absorb lower amounts of fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E, even when these vitamins are added to feed; and, consequently, less of these vital nutrients show up in the milk.7
Of all the cull cows taken to slaughter today, only about 5 percent have livers that can be salvaged. Damage to the liver is attributed to high levels of protein in soy-based feed. Brunetti also faults the practice of spraying manure back onto fields, resulting in very high levels of free nitrogen in the hay grown on these pastures. He cites a large “progressive” dairy in a high rainfall area of western Washington state that could not get its cows to breed or produce much milk. They thought their hay was high in protein because analysis showed high nitrogen values. But much of the nitrogen was free nitrogen which had an adverse effect on both fertility and milk production. When the farm ran out of its own hay and fed apparently lesser quality hay grown in eastern Washington state, milk production improved.
When cows eat high quality forage in green pastures, the pH of the rumen returns to normal and the cows enjoy good health and produce superior quality milk.
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
Thanks for the fascinating posts, donnay!
i grew up thinking all that offal meat was gross too however Ive come to learn that there are tremendous health properties of eating offal. Basically if one has a damaged organ they can repair it by eating that organ in an animal.. so people with thyroid issues can eat pork(or beef) thyroid, if you have liver issues eat liver, kidney issues eat kidney etc etc...
a few months ago I was at a chinese buffet and i was chewing on a chicken foot... now youre supposed to suck the juice out of them but this time I took a bite and of course a knuckle broke off in my mouth.. real gross.. but when i go to the farm next week ill get me a whole bag of chicken feet and put them into another bone broth... good gelatin in the feet, skin etc... maybe ill even get a bag of chicken heads and cook them too...
i will say I tried chicken gizzards for the first time ever recently in a broth.. i even chopped them up just in case whole ones were gonna be gross.. but they were excellent... you have to do a little prep work cleaning them but theyre great.. a similar texture to beef jerky...
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