Inci Willard <[log in to unmask]> wrote: A corn diet can also give a cow acidosis. Unlike that in our own highly acidic stomachs, the normal pH of a rumen is neutral. Corn makes it unnaturally acidic, however, causing a kind of bovine heartburn, which in some cases can kill the animal but usually just makes it sick.<<<<< I read some years back that the largest consumer of antacid, which I will leave un-named, is the corporate farming community. Oliva "The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Oliver W.Holmes