tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153867282024-03-07T21:05:26.871-08:00Linseed, Animal Nutrition & Human HealthLINSEED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK dedicated to Linseed Various Uses in Feed & FoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15386728.post-1169660408711061182007-01-24T08:57:00.000-08:002009-08-25T00:26:00.965-07:00No more a commodity and not only for Omega 3 !<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />More and more people are interested in flax, not only for the large amount of Omega 3 in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://pdrhealth.com/drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/nutsupdrugs/fla_0107.shtml">oil</a>, but also for other components which are found in the whole linseed (dietary fibers, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/lignans/">lignans</a> and other nutrients as proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, etc.) and which make this linseed a superb and efficient <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/plantsci/flaxseed.htm">nutri-functional ingredient</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br />More and more, flax is considered as somewhat as <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://lelincochonvegetal.blogspot.com/">a "vegetal pig"</a> ; that means that "from nose to tail", every part is very useful and the whole is called the "most useful" vegetal (<span style="font-style: italic;">Linum usitatissimum</span>) : healthy nutrition, both for humans and animals, but also many other various industrial applications are concerned by flax, like <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://journals.uzpi.cz/uniqueFiles/07393.pdf">the use of its fibre for non-textile use</a>.<br /><br />Such a wonderful raw material gives for producers and retailers many techno-marketing opportunities : should we only speak of it as a commodity ?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15386728.post-1159283414296464432006-09-26T07:49:00.000-07:002006-09-26T08:10:14.400-07:00MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL<div style="text-align: justify;">Even if to be a member of the LINSEED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK (LIN) is free of charges, our partners are kindly requested to renew their membership before next October 31, 2006 in order they can receive, exchange or provide informations about linseed business opportunities.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15386728.post-1135796420456564232005-12-28T10:07:00.000-08:002005-12-28T11:00:20.463-08:00COMMODITY IS NOT THE END OF THE CHANNEL<div style="text-align: justify;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">"Logic would dictate that the role of the existing channels, both direct and indirect, would become marginalized in a commodity world", sumarize Janet Waxman and Ken Presti into their report about the IT market (</span><a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=31624">Commodity is not the end of the channel</a><span style="" lang="EN-GB">) ; " but at any point in time, different technologies are at different points in their life cycles, meaning that partners that do an effective job of evolving with industry trends are best poised for ongoing success".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>This is also applicable to other products, even such "basic" ones as raw materials for feed and food. </span><a href="http://www.flax2015.ca/">The Flax Canada 2015 initiative</a><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> is a good example of the essential role which could be played by effective actors on the emerging market of bio-economy, explains John Oliver<st1:metricconverter productid="2015 in" st="on"> in</st1:metricconverter> a very interesting editorial entitled <span class="sub-title-01-red"> </span></span><a href="http://farmcentre.com/english/cbc/index.htm?id=366">Vision is the critical ingredient</a><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span class="sub-title-01-red">: </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>“Many Canadian farmers worry about their future and how they can compete against the likes of <st1:country-region st="on">Argentina</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the commodities game.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">I think they’re right to be worried. I don’t believe that Canadian agriculture can survive the way it’s currently structured.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> But I’m not a pessimist. Quite the opposite – I think the potential is enormous. What’s needed is a vision, and the will to do what’s necessary to achieve that vision.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> That’s why we’ve undertaken the Flax Canada 2015 initiative. Flax is much like canola was in the early 1970s – an industrial crop whose health benefits both in food and animal feed are just being recognized. It also has huge potential in terms of being a source of fibre, as a biofuel stock, and using its component constituents for industrial purposes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Our approach is to think of flax in terms of its ability to provide solutions for society. For example, we look at the trillions that are going to be spent on health care in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the coming years and ask what is the value of new flax products – such as Omega 3 eggs or pork – if they can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Right now, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the world’s top producer of flax, producing about 700,000 tonnes annually. That’s worth about $300 to $400 million but we feel that by identifying and exploiting value-added opportunities that are on the horizon today, we can raise that farm gate value to $1.5 billion by 2015. I believe the health, welfare and environmental benefits to the Canadian economy will be ten times that amount.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> has been dealt the best hand in the world to exploit this opportunity because we have the physical ingredients – land, water and energy – and the expertise in our farm, research, and business communities needed to achieve these goals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Flax is an example of what <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> can do in the emerging bio-economy, but not the only one. The current difficulty faced by Canadian agriculture is not a reason to despair, but to challenge ourselves to see the potential of the future and seize it with both hands".<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: trebuchet ms;" lang="EN-GB"></span></span> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15386728.post-1123934569259866912005-08-13T04:58:00.000-07:002005-08-13T05:02:49.260-07:00LINSEED & FOOD CHAIN<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;">LINSEED AND ANIMAL NUTRITION<br />A long time before any cereal was grown, linseed has been used by Man for various purposes :<br />- Its fiber in the confection of clothes (flax)<br />- Its oil in preparation of paints and treatment of wood<br />- Its seed, crushed and cooked, in the diet of animals and humans.<br /><br />Greeks and Romans, as testified by Hippocrates and Pliny, knew the nutri-functional properties of linseed ; during the Middle Ages, monks and monarchs, as natural heirs of Greco-roman civilization, encouraged cultivation of this vegetal all over Europe : as a consequence, the production of linseed and flax covered thousands of hectares until the XIXth century.<br /><br />Nowadays, the biggest producer of flax in the world is Canada ; but the linseed varieties richest in Omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) are grown in Europe, especially in France and Great-Britain.<br /><br />Linseed nutri-functional benefits for animals have been now well and scientifically demonstrated in exhaustive research work : cooked linseed incorporated in animal diets improves zoo-technical performances, productivity and fertility in all species (dairy cows, sows, poultry, …)<br /><br />Except young spring grass, linseed is the greatest provider of Omega 3 Poly-Unsaturated Fatty Acid (PUFA), through its high content in ALA ; but the increasing use of soya/cereals-based diets in intensive animal production, even in beef cattle, results in a lower proportion of these Omega 3 PUFA in milk, in meat and in eggs compared with traditional animal production.<br /><br /><br /><br />FROM ANIMAL NUTRITION TO HUMAN HEALTH<br />Every day, we learn more and more about the important link between nutrition and health, and particularly between animal nutrition and human health.<br /><br />This “food chain” concept has been developed by Professor Elton in the years twenties of last century : Elton explained that vegetal get energy from the light of the sun (through the photosynthesis), vegetal-eating animals get their energy from eating vegetal, and carnivores/omnivores animals get their energy from eating other animals.<br /><br />The word "chain" means that all the steps are linked together, so anything that affects one "link" in the chain affects every step in the chain. The first step, the vegetal, is called the producer, and the differents steps coming after it are called consumers : to take an example, dairy cows and beef cattle eat young grass during spring and could be fed with diets including cooked linseed during the rest of the year ; humans drink cow’s milk and eat beef meat : so humans will have the benefits of Omega 3 PUFA through the eating-vegetal animal step. The reality is not so simple (as dairy cows and beef cattle eat others vegetal products and humans eat others animal products and also vegetal products); but chain or web, food remains obviously the link between all the animals.<br /><br />The increasing interest in health benefits which are associated with the consumption of Omega 3 will increase the sales of various supplements and foods containing these PUFA ; as humans are not real vegetal-eating animals, but carnivore/omnivore ones, their sources of Omega 3 PUFA could be not only fatty fish, but also every animal product from animals -- either vegetal-eating animals (like dairy cows or beef cattle) or omnivore animals (like pigs) -- fed with diets including cooked linseed.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15386728.post-1123924682329175512005-08-13T02:04:00.000-07:002021-02-12T02:11:50.181-08:00LINSEED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK<div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://linseed-international-network.org">LINSEED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK</a> is intended to promote the use of linseed in feed and food for better results in animal breeding and human health within a natural approach of nutrition which takes care of food chain.
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