Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry,
advocates healthy food for the nation and for her own family,
according to an interview in The New York Times. Well
educated and outspoken, she is a proponent of pasture-based ranching—so
much so that she has switched her own small herd of cattle from
grain to grass.
In her comments to Times
columnist Marian Burros, she said, "I used to have 80
head of cattle. I used to feed them a little grain, but now they
are all grass fed with alfalfa because of studies that show that
animals that feed on grass have high levels of CLAs," conjugated
linoleic acids or nutrients that are believed by some New Zealand
scientists to reduce heart attacks and cholesterol levels."
