Post by brigitte on May 11, 2013 10:01:15 GMT -5
More pontificating from me......
Some of what I read here is new, and some I know. Particularly interested in what AnnB says.
My favorite, best milking, best tempered and healthiest heirloom cow should have come back A2/A2. I expected it from a milking shorthorn with such good heirloom traits. But there was a holstein sire back there somewhere in her pedigree that tossed her into A1 realm. It seems impossible to me that one black and white bull could mess up all her good milk qualities. So I don't believe it.
The other cows, four, are either A1/A1 with the exception of one that is A1/A2.
I did quite a bit of my own research, a lot of which depends on conjecture. Without much science to back up the A2 claims, I agree with the naysayers about the touted values of A2 over A1- not enough science. I would never, ever consider trading that no. one cow for another based on the A2 casein link.
However.......
A2 does, to my mind, have a certain as yet undefined value over A1. The missing link in the chain happened when we started messing with genetics to "improve" dairy cows. And that happened a long time ago (not 5,000 years) We began to "prefer" the bigger, higher producing animals as they evolved and I think we tended to reject other valuable qualities.
Something happened. We humans manipulated breeding to favor A1 in a commercial sense. To me, it almost seems more of a philosophical difference. Guernseys, almost entirely A2, are nearly entirely absent now from the commercial dairy business. Holsteins, that make up something better than 95 percent of all commercial cows, are nearly all A1.
Now, we seen to have the concern that a for-profit entity is favoring A2 for just the same reasons. profit.
Let's say at this point that I am keeping an open mind, that I do believe A2 milk may simply be a link to strong heirloom qualities we tended to breed out of commercial cows, and some A1 cows may be able to produce milk that is just as healthy as A2 milk...raw.. milk is a complex and very nutritious substance we have only just begun to understand as something other than what we put on cereal in the morning.
When people tell me that no animal drinks milk after childhood in nature, I ask if medicine has a time frame in that nature formula.
I also agree that the good bugs it contains can be overwhelming to guts sanitized by processed foods.
I don't think anyone disagrees that fresh milk from either an A1 or A2 cows is exponentially healthier than processed milk from any cow.
Some of what I read here is new, and some I know. Particularly interested in what AnnB says.
My favorite, best milking, best tempered and healthiest heirloom cow should have come back A2/A2. I expected it from a milking shorthorn with such good heirloom traits. But there was a holstein sire back there somewhere in her pedigree that tossed her into A1 realm. It seems impossible to me that one black and white bull could mess up all her good milk qualities. So I don't believe it.
The other cows, four, are either A1/A1 with the exception of one that is A1/A2.
I did quite a bit of my own research, a lot of which depends on conjecture. Without much science to back up the A2 claims, I agree with the naysayers about the touted values of A2 over A1- not enough science. I would never, ever consider trading that no. one cow for another based on the A2 casein link.
However.......
A2 does, to my mind, have a certain as yet undefined value over A1. The missing link in the chain happened when we started messing with genetics to "improve" dairy cows. And that happened a long time ago (not 5,000 years) We began to "prefer" the bigger, higher producing animals as they evolved and I think we tended to reject other valuable qualities.
Something happened. We humans manipulated breeding to favor A1 in a commercial sense. To me, it almost seems more of a philosophical difference. Guernseys, almost entirely A2, are nearly entirely absent now from the commercial dairy business. Holsteins, that make up something better than 95 percent of all commercial cows, are nearly all A1.
Now, we seen to have the concern that a for-profit entity is favoring A2 for just the same reasons. profit.
Let's say at this point that I am keeping an open mind, that I do believe A2 milk may simply be a link to strong heirloom qualities we tended to breed out of commercial cows, and some A1 cows may be able to produce milk that is just as healthy as A2 milk...raw.. milk is a complex and very nutritious substance we have only just begun to understand as something other than what we put on cereal in the morning.
When people tell me that no animal drinks milk after childhood in nature, I ask if medicine has a time frame in that nature formula.
I also agree that the good bugs it contains can be overwhelming to guts sanitized by processed foods.
I don't think anyone disagrees that fresh milk from either an A1 or A2 cows is exponentially healthier than processed milk from any cow.