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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

> CATTLE WON'T EAT GM GRAIN
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>
> "The humans will eat this stuff, but the animals won't."
> U.S.  farmer, ACRES, USA Special Report 19 September 1999.
>
> After four months  of retrieving anecdotes from Kansas to Wisconsin, I
think
> its high time to  sample the producer community more thoroughly to see how
> many stories there  are out there.
>
> Tell us more about the hogs that wouldn't eat the ration  when the GMO
crops
> were included. About the farmer who said ' Well, if you  want your cattle
to
> go off their feed, just switch them out to a GMO  silage.'
>
> About the farmer who said that his cattle broke through an old  fence and
ate
> down the non-GMO hybrids but wouldn't touch the Round-up ready  corn, and
as
> a matter of fact, "They had to walk through the GMOs to get to  the
Pioneer
> 3477 on the other side."
>
> About the cattleman who saw the  weight-gain of his cattle fall off when
he
> switched over to GMO sources. About  the organic farmer with a terrible
deer
> problem on his soybeans, and when he  drives out at night there are forty
of
> them mowing down his tofu beans while  across the road there isn't one doe
eating
> on the Round-up  Readies.
>
> About the raccoons romping by the dozen in the organic corn,  while down
the
> road there isn't one ear that's been touched in the Bt fields.  Even the
mice
> will move on down the line if given an alternative to these  'crops'.
>
> What is it that they know instinctively that most of us  ignore? I have
been
> traveling around with a bag of contaminated cob corn on  the floor of my
> vehicle, and I have begun to think of it as if it was a bag of
plutonium."
>