The ancestral wild aurochs were forest animals, and must have eaten lots 
of leaves.
Note the similar taste of modern oxen/cattle, if there is a tree in 
their pasture it is leafless as high as they can reach.

I'm guessing that leaves have something other than the composition of 
grasses.

William




Rundle wrote:
> I always put this question to them all... 
> that's when they usually lose interest in talking to me :-)
>
> BTW... that was me talking to Patricia the farmer and similarly many other farmers...
>
> Dedy
>
>
>   From: Paleo Phil Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 12:57 AM
>
>   > I've had a long chat with Patricia, the farmer about this a few years ago... got into
>   > similar conversations with several other organic meat farmers re grass-
>   > feeding... most seem to think that grass alone is not enough... sigh...
>   > same thing with the Queen's Park farmers market [the nearest to me]...
>   > no grass-fed meat there...
>
>   Did you ever try asking them how they think wild beef animals or early
>   cattle survived and reproduced before people started feeding them grains,
>   and later soy and other glop, or how pure grass-fed beef cattle survive
>   today, such as the vast majority of the cattle in Florida? :-)
>
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