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> >The whole theory that grass proteins somehow get into the
> >cow and cause allergic reactions in people just seems far
> >out to me. Grass is the cows natural food, after all.

Grass yes , but the seeds of genetically transformed cereals in their naked
state NO
Wheat for ex is very remote in the number of chromosomes from its wild
ancestor.

corn ,we don't even know what is for sure his ancestral form ( theosinte
that is so differente being the closest of what could be the origin )
The seeds of wild grass are first very small and come in a package . Naked
grain is inacessible to herbivorous animals .
That difference is the one that allow a wild animal to stop when his need ,
tolerance to starch are met, so to regulate its intake instinctivelly ( loss
of appetance ) Domestic naked grains bypass this instinctive regulation and
will bring an herbivorous animal to death by inability to stop.

My goats or sheep for ex have sometimes available to them as much ripe grass
seeds as they want byt because they have the choice of what they can eat
they stop rather quickly on them and look for  more succulent  parts or
differents species of plants or whatever.
 Horses that i raised free range ,the same.  Ours were prefering to go high
on the ridges where plants are hyper dwarfted rather than gorging on ripe
seeds in the valley
Eating beyond  and differently than what your body need have desastrous
health consequences more than just the fat profile ( too much proteins for
ex might trigger autoimmune reactions... imbalance between differents
nutrients )

Once a body metabolism is disturbed by wrong eating the correction of the
diet even if it reach some "perfection " ( still have to prove to youself
that you are on target with the changes made)  is not going to erase the
history of a body .
I brought back to a natural diet many species of domestic animals , and the
rehabilitation takes lot of time and you never get the same kind of result
than if the animal have been living all his life that way and even if the
parents them selves were eating right .
If it was not true we will have not transformed those beautifull strong wild
animals into a degenerated form ( never compared wild sheeps and domestic
ones ? Somes natives have said that an animal that is incapable to get back
on his feets once on his back is not worth eating .
I still raise domestic animals and as naturally as possible  but don't get
illusionned about the good he does to me .
As usual i will repete than changing one's diet is changing one's ecosystem
and one's relationship to that sytem .
We don't have the time to be too " sheepish " at throwing away the old
paradigme .
jean-claude