Tue, 16 Mar 2004

Healthier milk straight from the cow

I've got to wonder the obvious: healthier in comparison to what? Standard dairy cows, pumped full of grain and antibiotics? Probably.

I would like to see a study comparing the "healthiness" of both beef and dairy products from cattle raised on grass, and cattle raised on man-made feeds and grain. I just have a hard time believing that milk from a cow stuffed full of rapeseed would produce healthier product than that from a cow raised the way cows are supposed to be rasied: on pasture.

Cows fed a diet rich in rapeseed yield healthier milk, and butter that can be spread straight from the fridge, research reveals.

(link) [Nature] via The Green Man

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