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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] AHIPA: Exploring the Potential of a Sustainable Crop as a Food Source
  • Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:41:44 -0700

Marie McHarry wrote:

On 9/8/06, Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com> wrote:
<<People who can't keep
dairy animals or use dairy products, for whatever reason, should eat two
servings of deep-green leafy vegetables each day. I'm sure if you
consult the nutrition tables, you'll see there's no other natural way to
get enough calcium. >>

Millions of Chinese have been getting enough calcium for thousands of
years. That may change now that they're eating more meat, but if you
keep your protein intake down to maintenance levels, you don't need
nearly so much calcium. I'd recommend looking at the traditional
Chinese diet.

Marie
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Tofu is often made with gypsum (calcium sulfate), so greens are not their only source (gypsum doesn't fall under "natural" sources). But it is interesting that they do consume large quantities of greens, albeit mostly from the same Brassica family. And no doubt they would enjoy garlic mustard too, as a nice change of pace, if it's not banned there. I once submitted some recipes to the list from a garlic mustard cook-off somewhere in Illinois or Indiana.

And of course, you know it's not banned anywhere that this corny ideology hasn't penetrated. What I find most striking is that many of the crops I've mentioned, like chufa (the common Spanish name of yellow nutsedge) are praised endlessly by ag researchers in academic publications for their potential to feed the world (like proso millet, another "weed" from the list). Why, from the sound of it, the entire Third World is being planted up in acacia as we speak, for its "ability to generate firewood quickly and sustainably." It's just banned for me.

Call me suspicious, but when government is working overtime behind our backs to ban things that most people have never heard of, there's usually a deeper reason.

Bill
S. Oregon coast




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