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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> However, the short answer is that if it has prunus in the name, and that
> includes a whole bunch of fruits called stone fruits (peach, plum, almond,
> apricot, cherry), don't feed them to livestock or pets.

Wasn't laetrile, a purported cancer cure of sometime Steve McQueen 
fame, derived from apricot pits? Part of the theory, it seemed to me, 
was like homeopathic medicine, wherein a small potion is introduced 
to the body, which then does miraculous things reacting to it.