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Keywords: preservatives, chemicals, vitamins, by-products
Author: Tigger Montague

At a recent seminar I gave in Wellington, Florida, several questions were raised in the audience about certain preservatives in horse feed and supplements. Frankly, I don’t know much about the preservatives used in equine feed formulations, so I decided to hop down into the rabbit hole and find out….

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Keywords: round-up, herbicides, glyphosate, pesticide, pathogen
Author: Tigger Montague

In January, 2011 Don Huber Ph.D., a plant pathologist and international authority on nutrient deficiency diseases in plants (Professor Emeritus Purdue University), wrote a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilisack warning of the dangers he had studied with the glyphosate herbicide known as Round Up.

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Keywords: distillers grains, feed, antibiotics
Author: Tigger Montague

Distillers grains are a by-product of ethanol manufacturing. Making ethanol is a lot like brewing beer: you take a starchy carbohydrate (corn) wet it down to make a mash, warm it up, add yeast. Unfortunately it is common for the mash to become contaminated with bacteria such as Lactobacillus, which compete with the yeast for the sugars in the mash, but instead of producing alcohol, these bacteria leave behind lactic acid. This lowers the ethanol yield, so ethanol producers solve this problem by inoculating the mash with antibiotics.

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