Why is milk rich in calcium?

Cow's eat grass, is this rich in calcium? Where does it come from?

 

Calcium is in grass (and just about everything else that grows out of the ground). Cows eat colossal amounts of grass.

 

Fair enough, so where do they go to graze on 'colossal' amounts of say Strawberrys, Chocolates or Bananas?

 

Tescos.

 

even Soy Beans?!

 

I've never noticed soy beans in Tesco. Try Asda.

Being serious for a moment though, where we going with this one?

 

Just wondered why milk is pushed as being rich in calcium, when they only eat grass. But if they eat a lot of grass that solves it. Thanks.

EDIT:...as grass has calcium in it.

 

Cows don't just eat grass, they also have a cow cake to eat when they are milked which will have all sorts of ingredients,vitamins and minerals etc, the cake can be made to suit each herd

even the fertilizer can be made to suit each farm, some lack Selenium which we need as humans so they are putting more Selenium in to fertilizers becauce we're not importing much grain (wheat) at the moment from Canada which is high in Selenium

 

Soya is an ingredient of the cow cake

 

Jiffy,
whilst on the subject of milk , which you appear to know a thing or two about, we buy local unpasteurised milk direct from the farm and love the richness of it. It can taste a bit "cowey" in the winter - if the herd is kept inside but our last bottle tasted quite strong the other day. Milk a beautiful golden yellow and we are used to that taste but,
can you tell me what causes it please?
Jenny

 

Seen a Cow eat a live Chicken

 

Jenny, I cann't coment on

 

is it OK to drink?

 

Yes, Jenny, it's OK to drink