Re: Suze and goat chevre (was oatmeal weirdness)

[Guest guest]

> I had some goat

> chevre today as well, but had absolutely no perceptible reaction.

During my

> fast I thought about cheese alot for some reason, even though I've

never

> been a big cheese person.

That's interesting, about the goat chevre causing no problems.

How about raw goat's milk? Can you tolerate it? How about other

dairy?

I'm wondering if people with sensitive digestion find they can

tolerate goat dairy because goats don't generally have as large a

proportion of their diet as grain, compared to cows, for instance.

Ordinarily.

I mean, goats are very good at cleaning up the weeds and brush in a

pasture, and they tend to leave the grass for cows.

Some of the sustainable agriculture material we've been reading says

that weeds are higher in minerals than plain ol' grass. And leaves

from trees are high in minerals.

And goats are said to clean up the fallen leaves before they will eat

their hay in the fall and winter.

http://www.noble.org/Ag/Livestock/GoatVegetation/index.htm

Is there any connection between a diet that is high in minerals and

the ability to produce adequate enzymes?

P.S. I'm still amazed at how well all this discussion fits in with

that old book " Heidi " !

[Guest guest]

Ooooh! I wonder if that's why I'll choose goat's milk cheese over

just about any other cheese out there. Especially when it comes to

hard cheeses. I'm pretty sure I need the minerals so this is just one

more instance of needing to listen to my body!

Ghislaine

On 8/25/05, <toyotaokiec@...> wrote:

> Some of the sustainable agriculture material we've been reading says

> that weeds are higher in minerals than plain ol' grass. And leaves

> from trees are high in minerals.

>

> And goats are said to clean up the fallen leaves before they will eat

> their hay in the fall and winter.

[Guest guest]

> Re: Suze and goat chevre (was oatmeal weirdness)

>

>

>

>> I had some goat

>> chevre today as well, but had absolutely no perceptible reaction.

>During my

>> fast I thought about cheese alot for some reason, even though I've

>never

>> been a big cheese person.

>

>That's interesting, about the goat chevre causing no problems.

>

>How about raw goat's milk? Can you tolerate it? How about other

>dairy?

Hi ,

Sorry for not responding sooner. I have a bad habit of not keeping up with

old threads when new ones come up and I get swept up in new ideas/exchanges

etc.

In any case, I haven't had raw goat's *milk* in a long time - several years,

I think. IIRC it made me bloat, at least at some point along the line. Other

dairy...cow's milk makes me bloat for sure. I know this since I did a

weeklong milk fast a few years ago and I was bloated the whole time. I don't

think I've had any noticable symptoms from either yogurt or cheese from any

species till this week when I did get a woozy feeling both from sheep kefir

and sheep yogurt. But I was having bad reactions to *everything* I put in my

mouth after the water fast, so I'm not really sure what to make of it. It

only happened a few times, not every time I consumed these things.

>

>I'm wondering if people with sensitive digestion find they can

>tolerate goat dairy because goats don't generally have as large a

>proportion of their diet as grain, compared to cows, for instance.

>Ordinarily.

I have no idea. The sheep and goat milk that I've gotten most recently

hardly get any grains at all. But the I brixed the sheeps' pasture and it

was on average around 2, which is *terrible*. Yet the sheep milk brixes at

13. I think sheep milk has a different quality scale than cow's milk for

this reason. And I think the fat content makes the sheep milk higher brix

even when it's not particularly high quality milk for that species, but

might indicate decent quality for another species milk, such as cows'.

>Some of the sustainable agriculture material we've been reading says

>that weeds are higher in minerals than plain ol' grass. And leaves

>from trees are high in minerals.

>

>And goats are said to clean up the fallen leaves before they will eat

>their hay in the fall and winter.

Most of the local farmers I've spoken with about their goats' diet though

says they mainly eat pasture (just like the cows and sheep) cuz that's

what's available.

>Is there any connection between a diet that is high in minerals and

>the ability to produce adequate enzymes?

Yes, I think, because the minerals are cofactors of the enzymes.

Suze Fisher

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