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  • From: "Wayne" <wa2yne@gmail.com>
  • To: <OWL-OldWaysLiving@yahoogroups.com>, "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Lead poisonong. was Re: Ten Acres Enough
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:11:24 -0600

Reading about the soldering of cans brought back to my mind about lead poisoning.
It was discovered that the solder used to seal cans was leaching into the food and slowly poisoning people with toxic lead, in some cases lethal doses.
It may never be known how many people had their lives cut short by this form of lead poisoning.

And lead is not the only toxic item people used to ingest or absorb. Mercury is another, used in various forms as medications.
YMMV

Wayne WA2YNE
www.desert-rat.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>; <OWL-OldWaysLiving@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:31 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Ten Acres Enough

Trimmed to reflect only the part I'm commenting on...


You never know what'll turn up in a thrift store.

"The year was 1864--almost a hundred years before Helen and Scott Nearing's
Living the Good Life, The Mother Earth News, and the Whole Earth Catalogs."

He faced problems with his tomato crop because early and late tomatoes
fetched a high price at the market but in mid-season the market was
glutted. Morris describes as hopeful the new technique for tinning tomatoes
so that they can be preserved for winter use and save the waste of letting
them rot in the fields when the effort to ship them to market is not worth
the gain. He marvels at the dexterity of the tinmen who can solder lids on
cans at the rate of almost 100 an hour.






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