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It has been clearly shown that livestock do not have any innate ability
to select feed based upon their requirements at the time. Most of us
should be aware of the problem of excessive copper intake for sheep,
certain minerals causing urinary blockage in male livestock, death from
cherry tree leaves, etc.
Wild animals are frequently in deficit of their ideal nutritional
requirements, but nature can be cruel.
At one time there were some charlatans selling individual minerals in
our state. They had NO science to show anything and yet they were
claiming they had a scientific basis and included handouts. I later read
the handout and it was of no scientific value since it was an opinion by
a scientist that maybe, possibly, there might be something that allowed
selection. But no actual science. No study of any kind. He was just
mentioning this as a possibility.
Scientific pursuit does not have all the answers at a given moment, but
it often has the best information we have at the time to make the most
informed decisions possible. Those who ignore science, can pay a heavy
price in the long run.
Rick W.
AgriSolutions wrote
>One has to ask how animals ever managed in the wild to survive to this day
>without man's intervention if they did not have the innate ability to select
>feed based on their requirements at the time. It is high time that the well
>educated looked to the natural systems to learn how to best apply that
>knowledge instead of trying to recreate the wheel with all the flaws built
>into it by the reductionist process of research and its interpretation.
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