To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Not for the faint of heart
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:22:32 -0600
"The average udder lies in manure at least
once a day."
I had a Jersey cow once long ago, and one cow is a LOT cleaner than any
commercial dairy. Later we had milk goats, which are much neater than cows
anyway, now we have eggs that sometimes require wiping off chicken manure,
and we butcher our poultry ourselves. I don't actually mind any of this, to
me the manure from birds and herbivores is somehow "cleaner" than from
carnivores or even the dirt in places where there are lots of people. And
the meat from our birds is fresh, really fresh, so I don't have to think
about how long it might have been growing some kind of nasty bacteria.
Grocery store meat seems a lot creepier to me, and I hear that people from
Europe are rather freaked out by the warning labels on American meat.
What we DO know about the bad strain of E. coli is that it is VERY easy
to catch, and that it is favored by feeding lots of grain. That means that
deer that eat in cornfields and then hang out in orchards are more likely to
carry the stuff. Then there's the question of whether you who might be
exposed to the bacteria, eat lots of grain, or more vegetables. Grain tends
to alkalize the gut and make it easy for E. coli to grow. In Japan lots of
people were taking probiotics to keep from catching it. Donna
Re: [NAFEX] Not for the faint of heart,
Donna &/or Kieran, 11/02/2006