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Sun Apr-27-08 07:44 PM
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Ever seen a thousand pound steer? (Re: the coming food crunch) |
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Those babies eat grass! They get that big and taste that good eating free range grass around here. So there's the answer. You can live by grazing on your lawn! No fertilizers or chemicals please. In fact, if you just take a day ride/hike in the country, and graze a bit, you can cut your food bill in half and the roughage will set you free. (Seriously, you can live on grass and it is very good for you and I'm going upstairs for some now. Back soon.)
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:47 PM
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grass that you smoke ?....munchies, munchies, munchies.....
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:48 PM
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2. have you ever watched survivorman? |
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Or Man v. Wild?
These guys, trained in survival techniques, never seem to eat much grass or leaves. Only very specific certain things. I spose the inedibles just chew up your gastrointestinal system.
I realize you are joking around, but I wonder if someone can tell us why we shouldn't eat grass (aside from the prospect of cat pee, dog poo and fertilizers).
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:55 PM
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Edited on Sun Apr-27-08 07:57 PM by panader0
I took organic wheat kernals, put then in a large flat pan with some soil, watered them, and when they grew, I cut the blades with sissors and ate them.(and you can repeat it) Very good for you. I drink too much now.
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:19 PM
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14. Seriously, it's not that difficult to grow your own bean sprouts |
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:25 PM
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18. Yeah . . . I seem to recall that's all indoor/bathtub growing . . . right? |
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:41 PM
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26. soaking in a bowl for a day and then into a strainer nt |
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:46 PM
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It's dead easy. We grow our own all the time.
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:48 PM
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3. This is going to get stupid, fast. |
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:48 PM
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And I may rustle me one of them soon if the food shortage is as bad as the fear mongers make it out to be. But since I live in farm country, I don't think it will be as bad as some people think. At least not here.
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:49 PM
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5. Lol... Yep, you better define which grass you talking about man. n/t |
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:51 PM
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you're guts won't digest it. Grass fed beef tastes like shit. You have to cut every piece of fat off or it tastes and smells when it cooks, rancid. So there goes your hamburger and roasts because you can't get the fat out. Same with deer, got to get rid of the grass fat or it stinks so bad when cooking you can't get near it. I know all this from experience, hunting and raising my own beef.
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:57 PM
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11. what the hell kind of grass are talking about |
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Plenty of grass fat beef consumed around here - delicious!
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:24 PM
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Mon Apr-28-08 04:37 PM
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30. I do, a little. You probably should start. |
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Edited on Mon Apr-28-08 04:39 PM by coriolis
:eyes: Because you said something really, really stupid.
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:33 PM
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22. what?? the only beef I eat now is locally grown grass fed beef |
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it's so much better tasting than commercial grain fed beef.
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:28 PM
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23. I guess it's all in one's |
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taste. I've never been able to stomach grass fed only beef. Almost always they'll grain them a week or two before butchering. I have butchered beef myself along with venison, and to me the grass fat is too gross to eat.
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:52 PM
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7. back now............. he he he |
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Sun Apr-27-08 07:54 PM
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8. Some components of grass are healthy as supplements to a balanced diet... |
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roughage, chlorophyll...but a person decidedly CANNOT "live on grass".
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:03 PM
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12. I applaud your thriftiness, but I'm pretty sure humans can't digest cellulose |
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I guess it could work if half your food bill is insoluble fiber, but the trick for the quarter-ton steer is possessing a ruminant digestive system that digests grass with the aid of a chambered stomach, cud-chewing, and microorganisms that produce enzymes capable of rendering otherwise useless roughage (for omnivores) into something you could gain weight on. Maybe if you chew it long enough you'll get something out of it but it's definitely an uphill battle with human anatomy on this one.
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:22 PM
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16. Mostly in jest foo_bar |
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but eating the green soft stalks at the bottom of grass is nutritious, like when you pull a stalk apart and there's a sweet, edible part. But it's true, man can not live by grass alone.
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:28 PM
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20. sorry, just a public service announcement for city folks. |
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And especially don't eat the grass in NYC.
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:43 PM
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I was scrolling down to enlighten those about cellulose.:thumbsup:
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:15 PM
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13. Humans, unlike cattle or many other herbivores |
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do not digest grass very well, we simply don't have the stomach(s) for it.
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:22 PM
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Genius is never appreciated until after the fact. Goin' up the country...
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:26 PM
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19. Seriously, I'm reading that farmers can't afford fertilizer prices now . . . |
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Edited on Sun Apr-27-08 08:26 PM by defendandprotect
that may be a PLUS for healthier, more nutritious foods?
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Sun Apr-27-08 08:33 PM
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21. You would have to eat an enormous quantity of |
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grass, it's not that nutritious. Cows eat from daylight to dark and they also regeritate the stuff and eat it again. Cows have like 7 stomachs so it must be rather hard to digest I would say. Then what about all the dogs that poop and pee on it?
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:34 PM
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starved to death with a full stomach of alfalfa because of elements missing in their digestive tract.
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:42 PM
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27. Um, NO YOU CAN'T. Dumbass. |
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Mon Apr-28-08 04:49 PM
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31. However dandelion greens are edible |
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So the moral to the story is to sow your front yard with dandelions and you'll have your own salad bar. Your neighbors will love you for it. Trust me. ;)
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