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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Alert: Risk of injury, possibly serious, from giant hogweed plant. Video and documents.
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:53:26 -0500

On 12/30/2011 1:52 PM, georg parlow wrote:
We have it in Europe

Yes, it has been around for 30 plus years, and I personally now of
nobody, who had severe blisters or got blind. A minor, temporary rash
is the most serious I know of. In the tropics they have trees that
cause the same thing - they simply look out for this and alert
strangers in the area. No big deal, just part of God's garden. To me

That is certainly reassuring but if you look at the websites and videos there are alarming pictures of blistered skin rashes on people plus they contend there is a cancer risk factor and of course blindness if you get it in your eyes.

If you get poison ivy in your eyes you could go blind from that; burn PI, fresh and green or dried and aged, and anyone in contact with the smoke will get an inflammation or worse be hospitalized or if that smoke is breathed then it could be fatal just as eating it could be.

Poison ivy has been the bane of my existence since childhood; I have learned how to handle it and to stay clear of it, also how not to create conditions where it can grow and flourish and be difficult or impossible to eradicate without herbicides.

this sounds like just another "dangerous alien! Destroy destroy
destroy!"-campagne, that is designed to give hundreds of professionals
a job on the cost of scaring the ignorant that have lost connection
with nature.

That is a big worry, a war on exotic alien invasive plants armed with all sorts of herbicides...






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