minerals and nutrition
Maroc (maroc@islandnet.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:10:10 +0000
We must be making some headway because Alison and Dale are both right on.
Alison your sales pitch is honest and pointing people in the correct
direction. With reasonable respect to Dale and his collegues we'd have to
say that no scientist in a lab will ever be as finely tuned to bovine
nutrition as a healthy cow. If there is a disagreement over the
nutritional contents of any bovine food, I'll trust the cow any day. You
can bet that humans have a built-in ability in this also, although nearly
all of us have grown so far from the real world that we has lost most of
it. I would never pretend that food we grow has constant nutritional
content/quality. There are too many variables over the plant's lifetime to
predict the final outcome. But you know quality when you get it. You know
the joy when your eyes, your fingers, your nose, your lips, mouth, and
digestive tract all sing, "this is it", even if it is only a radish.
Science has its values, although it is nothing like the chemical
corporations would have us believe. For instance, it took me a long time
to realize (and admit) that sending soil samples to a testing lab was all
wrong. Just as the cow can tell me a lot about the food I'm giving her,
our vegetable plants and fruit vines, bushes and trees, will tell me what
they need and want if I watch them carefully and learn to understand their
signs. If Dale and Alison are both headed down the same road, we'd do well
to head in that direction also.
Don Maroc
Vancouver Island, Canada
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