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| 3463.1 | Try your local feed store for corn | ESCROW::ROBERTS | | Wed Feb 19 1992 10:41 | 6 |
| Just as a guess, I'd say you could start with cracked corn -- like the
kind fed to chickens. This is available in feed and grain stores.
Or you could go to a health food store and pay about 10 times the
price. 8^)
-ellie
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| 3463.2 | Do not confuse seed and feed corn could be fatal | YNGSTR::STCLAIR | | Wed Feb 19 1992 17:00 | 11 |
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Do NOT confuse seed and feed corn!!!!!!!
Seed corn is often treated with a mercury compond that kills fungus
etc. It also causes brain damage and death in humans.
Bon Appitite
/doug
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| 3463.3 | I suppose it couldn't kill ya, but . . . | 16BITS::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dog face) | Wed Feb 19 1992 17:19 | 5 |
| Would normal cracked corn from the feed store be of suitable quality for
human food use? I have no idea what type of quality controls might have
been in place during processing.
-Jack
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| 3463.4 | Cows don't mind rat hairs in their supper | CAMONE::BONDE | | Wed Feb 19 1992 18:08 | 10 |
| >Would normal cracked corn from the feed store be of suitable quality for
>human food use?
I wouldn't want to eat it, unless it was specifically labeled for human
consumption. No real effort is made to ensure hygenic processing
conditions for grain-type critter foods.
Sue
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| 3463.5 | | TLE::DBANG::carroll | a woman full of fire | Wed Feb 19 1992 19:59 | 5 |
| I would assume, though, that feed grain is mercury-free, because
otherwise mercury would accumulate in the body of the livestock in
question and therefore eventually be consumed by people.
Diana
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| 3463.6 | | CSOA1::SCHWARTZ_F | North Coast, U.S.A. | Thu Feb 20 1992 11:16 | 20 |
| re: seed corn
Yes, I've seen some seed corn that was completely coated with a colored
substance, supposed to be a mixture of fertilizer and anti-fungal
materials. I certainly wouldn't want to use that.
However, isn't cracked feed corn what the farmers in this area call
"field corn" (called this, I guess, because it is allowed to ripen and
dry on the ears while still in the field, and harvested very late in
the fall)?
Do you think that this type of corn is the source of corn meal?
The "types" of corn that I can think of are:
1) "sweet" corn = soft, fleshy kernels that can be eaten on the cob,
or are removed for freezing, canning, etc.
2) "pop" corn = kernels explode when heated
3) "field" corn = dry, hard kernels; fed to animals
any others?
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| 3463.7 | would you like to eat grain with 'less than 1 ppm rat parts' | NOVA::FISHER | Rdb/VMS Dinosaur | Thu Feb 20 1992 11:52 | 7 |
| Re: feed grain sanitation:
For example there is no limit of the number of rodent parts per million
as there is with stuff intended for human consumption. Not that they
are that great for the latter but some is better than none.
ed
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| 3463.8 | | 16BITS::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dog face) | Thu Feb 20 1992 16:05 | 27 |
| re: <<< Note 3463.6 by CSOA1::SCHWARTZ_F "North Coast, U.S.A." >>>
> However, isn't cracked feed corn what the farmers in this area call
> "field corn" (called this, I guess, because it is allowed to ripen and
> dry on the ears while still in the field, and harvested very late in
> the fall)?
Yes, that is the source of cracked corn.
> Do you think that this type of corn is the source of corn meal?
Also, yes.
> The "types" of corn that I can think of are:
> 1) "sweet" corn = soft, fleshy kernels that can be eaten on the cob,
> or are removed for freezing, canning, etc.
> 2) "pop" corn = kernels explode when heated
> 3) "field" corn = dry, hard kernels; fed to animals
> any others?
Umm - how 'bout "Indian corn" (colored kernels and sorta different from all
of the above)?
I'm not sure if hominy is made from variety 3 above, or a different type
of corn altogether.
-Jack
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