Re: RC: ti's "article"

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/27/99 12:54:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU writes:

<< >>The most recent
 >> HORSE research has also shown an dramatic incidence (up to 90% in some
 >> stables!)of gastric ulcers in racehorses (not a problem in our forage fed
 >> endurance horses!).>
 
 >A wild extrapolation of known fact. Race horses LIVE on bute and other
 NSAIDs.
 >And corticosteroids. And the stress of a number of emotional factors. You're
 >saying that these ulcers are due to carbohydrate intake? Absurd.
 
 No, I'm saying the traditional high grain/ low fiber ration fed to these
 horses  contributes to the problem. Heck, there was a recent report that
 showed that merely bringing horses accustomed to being on pasture into
 stalls for 7 straight days gave them ulcers-even if they were fed only hay.
 Nothing is black and white, though you'd like us to believe so.
  >>

Sarah, take a look at the above exchange. Your first rant, claiming 90% ulcers
in racehorses (due, according to your previous statements, to a high
carbohydrate ration) is then contradicted by your second--horses get ulcers in
seven days on hay only. 

Your fixation on hay for endurance horses requires a lot of defending, but not
the kind of logic demonstrated by the defenders of little billy clinton. 

ti


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