At 21:13 1998-05-12 -0400, Todd Moody wrote: >First, the question about gluten and grain-fed beef. Grains are >the natural foods for cows and other ruminants, along with the >rest of the grasses that produce those grains. Very small amounts, and only for a short time of the year. Grass seeds fall to the ground as soon they are riped, waiting there for the next rain season. >The "grain" that is most commonly >introduced into their diet by humans, to fatten them, is corn. Not in Europe I think, at least not northern. Here it is other grains. In a later post: >Exactly. Wheat is grass. Grains are part of grass. Cows eat >thet whole thing; they don't spit out the grains. No but I think they avoid to eat from areas with ear. They should do, otherwise there will be no grass for them to eat next year... If I interpret Loren Cordains theories about "molecular mimicry" right even ruminants may not be totally safe from alien grain molecules. Where they go into the animal is another good question that I dont know the answear to. And what about farmed salmon fed with grains? - Hans