One of the issues that interests me is why there is a need to feed more protien and so much so that meat meal is considered as a source for ruminants with such long digestive tracts? Is it because the application of watersoluble fertilisers particulally nitrogen is reducing the protien levels in plants? My partner Gill Cole is working on some aspects of this for her Master of Science thesis right now. Lettuces have been the test plant and various mixes and matches of the preparations have been used. She has a list of other questions that I could pass on to anyone who would like to discuss them. >From what I've taken from Mark Purdies dissertation we should see that copper zinc and selenium should be well supplied in the soil and the major cations should be well balanced too, plus active use of the Steiner remedies. One might also ask why the Warble fly is such a pest and would peppering be part of the remedy? Peter. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Mad cow update ect...
> Just for clarification: > > I think the argument for pasture-fed ruminates has already been won > in the biological farming movement. I do not think that anyone in > this movement who has been paying attention thinks that it is ok to > feed by-products (proteins) or grains, for that matter, to grazing > animals. > The mad cow situation, however, presents not so much a threat to > human health as it does to the future of farming, with governments > given martial law-type powers to destroy herds. Purdey's research > reveals that there is no need to destroy these herds and that the > origins of mad cow (what do we need to say? the ACUTE origins of Mad > Cow Disease...) are in inappropriate government policies (too much > insecticide applied to already imbalanced herds) I'm not too > optimistic that there is anything we can do about what the > governments are doing in response to Mad Cow, primarily because none > of us are clear on what their true motivations are. What I think is > clear is that even through everything is broken, Mad Cow represents a > particularly disconcerting disruption of 'health as usual' and I, for > one, feel much more comfortable with Purdey's explanation than I do > with the 'official' one. > > As for quoting Steiner, well, he also said that farms might taste > better with peppers on them, didn't he? What was he getting at?? > > -Allan > _______________________________________________ > BDNow mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can unsubscribe or change your options at: > http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow _______________________________________________ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
