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>feed them corn and soy which is totally not their natural diet What's a "natural diet"? I always assumed that animals (including us) ate what they could get,
by navigatesol 7y ago
>feed them corn and soy which is totally not their natural diet
What's a "natural diet"? I always assumed that animals (including us) ate what they could get, and their diets were perpetually evolving along with their environment.
- bluGill 7y agoGrass would make up the bulk of their diet. Note that corn is a grass. Dairy cows have a diet that is strictly designed by a nutritionist. When cows are fed corn, it isn't just the corn seed, it is the entire plant. Dairy cows get the more expensive premium feed, and soy is not a large part of that.
- inerte 7y agoTheir diets are probably evolving but we're the ones changing the environment. Instead of grazing pasture, we feed them with genetically modified (not a bad thing per se, but not naturally available on the environment) and so much washed out that we have to fortify with B12 otherwise they would get sick.