chicken feed / wheat _Totally_ off topic

[John Lillico, RPT]

Save for Susan, I think all the contributors to this thread are a little hen-pecked.

John (Big Red) Lillico

>At 05:05 PM 06/15/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>>This is a wonderfully weird thread.
>>
>>You know, I heard that somewhere, chicken were being fed ground animal 
>>remains and that in about 50 generations they would become meat- eating.
>>
>>Kristinn
>
>This is, truly, a weird and wonderful thread. Chickens already eat animal 
>protein in nature, because they peck at lots of bugs, if given the chance. 
>The idea that they will change that quickly seems sort of like Lysenko's 
>theories to me. (This is not a good thing to say about a theory.)
>
>On the other hand, it is a terrible mistake to feed animal remains to 
>ruminants, like goats, cattle, etc. It should not have taken mad cow 
>disease to show this to farmers. When animals have lived solely on 
>vegetation for as long as cows have, they have lost the adaptations to 
>resist meat-born diseases and parasites. Humans, on the other hand, have 
>not. In fact, I've recently been reading that one cause of our many health 
>problems late in life is that we now don't usually carry the parasites we 
>were evolved to coexist with, so we collect and store more iron than we 
>should. Usually the germs and worms stole some iron from us. So, give blood 
>to the Red Cross! They'll give you a sticker saying that people should be 
>nice to you.
>
>Off-topic frolics .... thanks, fun list.
>
>Susan