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Re:Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls by navigatesol on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:24AM (#21290364)
>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.

Re:Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls by bluGill on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:56AM (#21290535)
Grass 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.

Re:Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls by inerte on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:00AM (#21291940)
Their 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.