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  • From: "Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: YankeePerm@aol.com
  • Cc: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Plant toxins
  • Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 14:33:07 +0000

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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steved@ncatark.uark.edu




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