permaculture

["Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>]

I lifted a thread from Dan Hemenway's post and changed the subject 
line to Plant Toxins.  I think the other thread on congressional testimony 
and cancer will result in a lot of verbosity.  Why not turn this 
discussion into something useful to permaculture? 

Steve Diver


Dan Hemenway wrote: 
> As for Nature, when I was in high school, I was taught:  Nature abhors a
> vacuum.  I've since concluded that this is merely a subset of a general law:
>  Nature abhors purity.  Yes something in a flowering plant can be worse for
> you than something from a pesticide factory, but, lacking objective data, 
> the
> plant is the way to bet for you and your families health.
> 
> Maybe a useful outcome of this discussion, if there is to be one, would be 
> to
> list known species (e.g. poke weed) and conditions (e.g. granite bedrock) 
> that
> create significant carcinogens.  I think we can readily get lists of known
> plant and animal toxins and that this would be an excercise in reguritation
> not worth the electrons.  A bibliography on plant toxins would be more
> useful.
> 
> As always, I am here to collect and report the list.  As always, I expect
> that I will get zero responses.  Surprise me.  Permaculture is nothing if 
> not
> participatory.
> 
> For Mother Earth, Dan Hemenway, Yankee Permaculture Publications (since
> 1982), Elfin Permaculture workshops, lectures, Permaculture Design Courses,
> consulting and permaculture designs (since 1981), and now correspondence
> courses via email.  One is now underway.  Next Live program:  Paraguay, 
> 8/98.
> Internships available. Copyright, 1997, Dan & Cynthia Hemenway, P.O. Box 52,
> Sparr FL 32192 USA  YankeePerm@aol.com  
> 
> We don't have time to rush.
 

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