tray.b wrote:
> As
> far as is known, gluten does not make its way into the flesh of a grain-fed
> animal. Milk? Perhaps.it does with humans. But most grain-fed cattle,
> anyway, aren't fed wheat or gluten grains.
The grass of grass-fed ruminants would include the seeds at the top of
the stalks in any case, at least when the grass is mature. Those
grains, which are a completely natural part of the animal's diet, would
contain gliadin/gluten. So if the premise is that an animal must have a
completely gluten-free diet for its meat to be gluten-free (which I very
much doubt) then grass-fed animals couldn't be counted on to be provide
gluten-free meat. As you say, feedlot cattle tend to be "finished" on
corn and soy meal.
Todd Moody
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