So over the past 50 years, farming has changed drastically. On dairy farms, you had to milk the cow by hand, leave the milk just in a bottle, and you would have to take it someone right away so it wouldnt go bad. You also probably did not have that many cows on your farm, because it was alot to handle. It was mostly your family working for you too.
Now there are many new ways to make farm work more efficient.
There are machines now that you can hook up to a cow's udder and it will extract the milk from the udder instead of doing it by hand. This saves time because it will suck the milk into a large tank, instead of having the person put it in a small bucket, then having to leave and get new buckets and empty it. This tank also keeps the milk cold, and refridgerated.
I have friend, lets call him Neil Thomas Kruse. He lives on his family's dairy farm. It has been in their family for 3 generations. They sometimes milk the cows by hand, because they have 200, and do not have that many machines. Himself and his brothers have to work on their farm.
All of his 200 cows are girls. They have to artificially inseminate the cows, because they do not own any male cows, aka bulls.
The milk the cows produce, they sell to many dairy companies, so they can pasturize it. But Neil does drink the milk when it is unpasturized, and he says it is much better that way.
They feed the cows hay and grass, which is what all cows eat.
Neil tells me that he has never had a cow with mad cow disease. Which is usually caused when you feed cows the remains of other cows, to save money instead of buying them food.
As you can see, there are many new farmers techniques, and there will be many more in the future. These new techniques
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I Love Soy
Soy!Soy milk has been a healthy alternative for people who can not drink real milk from cows, and sow in other products is also an alternative for people who are lactose intolerent . Now there are many people choosing to eat soy products just for the taste alone. Soy is high in protein, because it is made from beans. It also contains much more fiber then milk from a cow. Another benefit of this product is a chemical called isoflavones, which a chemical closely related to estrogen. This hormone prevents things like cancer, heart disease and even more.
Soy does have all those health benefits, so many people think that it is completely low in fat, which it is not. It does have alittle fat then how much is in 2% regular milk from a cow, but it doesnt have nearly as much cholestrol. Another negative aspect of soy is that it doesnt have alot of calcium, which is what cow's milk is high in. Soy has only a quarter of the calcium that cow's milk does. But other ingredients can be added to soy to had calcium to the product.
The cholestrol lowering effect of soy is widely known, but there are certain requirements soy has to meet for this to be true.
It needs to have the following:
6.25g of soy protein
Less than 3g of fat
Less than 1g saturated fat
Less than 20g cholesterol
There are many prodcuts that are made from/out of soy. Calcium fortified milk, tofu, soy nuts, soy patties, soy cheese, soy yogurt, and soy cereal.
Later in the article I read where I got the criteria for lowering cholesterol, it explained that AHANC (American Heart Association Nutrition Commitee) says that they are no longer suggesting that you should eat soy to lower your cholesterol. This is because when you eat high amounts of soy, it only reduces your cholesterol by 3%.
People are going to keep eating soy, because it tastes wonderful. Products like SoyJoy make eating soy as entertaining as eating a candy bar.
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