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Animal feed for human health
What makes a human physician work for an animal feed
company? I asked that question to Dr Luc de Keyser following his presentation at
a poultry seminar organised by the Belgian companies Orafti and Danis in the
Netherlands. (2 comments)
What makes a human physician work for an animal feed
company? I asked that question to Dr Luc de Keyser following his presentation at
a poultry seminar organised by the Belgian companies Orafti and Danis in the
Netherlands.
His explanation
was simple; "Because the owner of the company he works for - INVE a premix
manufacturer - wanted to know what effect their feed ingredients would have on
the health of those people that consume meat from animals that receive their
feed."
Is that not obvious?
Why has more companies not thought of this before? It would certainly have
helped the livestock industry in the placing of blame, made by anti livestock
industry and vegetarians, in a more realistic perspective.
Dr De Keyser told the audience
that the human DNA has not changed in thousands of years and that we should take
primitive ethnic groups as an example of what to eat to stay healthy.
All major human diseases of the
modern world are unknown to these people. Why is that? And can we learn from
them?
Yes, says De Keyser, and
noted the principles of the Paleo diet which makes you understand why we are
confronted more and more with diseases we assumed to be rare.
De Keyser explained that this is
not just another hype but a diet that mimics the types of foods each person on
the planet ate prior to the Agricultural revolution. These foods are high in the
beneficial nutrients that promote good health and are low in the foods and
nutrients (sugars, grains, salt, saturated and trans fats, high glycemic
carbohydrates, and processed foods) that may cause health problems.
The diet is one of the very few
based on real science and backed globally by a large group if scientists and
encouraging the intake of lean meat containing long chain unsaturated fatty
acids. This type of meat can be obtained from wild animals or animals that have
been raised on commercial diets.
Poultry, like fish, can transfer characteristics of their
feed via their meat or eggs on to the human diet, and for that reason should be
fed under controlled conditions and not kept in free range or outdoor farming.
It sounds like a contraction
but the nutritional characteristics of their meat does not fit anymore in the
diets of modern man, unless people change their lifestyle and the rest of their
diet as well.
This view supported by a huge amount
of science, questions even more in what direction the poultry industry will have
to go.
For the powerpoint presentation of Dr Luc de Keyser talk
(in Dutch) please contact info@WorldPoultry.net
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