Guest guest Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 The trouble with wild food gathering is that one never knows what may have gotten onto or into the plant. There are no controls or checks, no regulation of such things as toxic run-offs, lead in the rain, PCBs in the soil, etc. It's risky at best to eat a lot of wild food, sad to say. Look at how fish have been rendered toxic by heavy metals and other pollutants, for instance. Being Euell Gibbons is one thing, but in his day he didn't face nearly the industrial sewage environment we now live in. Did you know that open-air rooftop gardens tend to gather and concentrate the lead and other pollutants found in car exhausts, for instance? It works the same way in the wild but with less predictable results. So by all means enjoy the occasional wild foot but remember that many of the bad things it may have been exposed to don't wash off, etc. On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 01:51 AM, wrote: > Message: 12 > Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:44:27 -0000 > " Denise " <pamperedveggie > Re: Wild Foods; Was: In the Bunker > > A very good friend of mine has a business completely built around > educating people on Wild Foods. He's located here in Portland, OR; > you can visit his website at http://www.wildfoodadventures.com > > He takes people on hikes around the Pacific NW and on some they > gather wild foods and create a meal at the end of the hike. > > I'm trying to get him to do something out of our land, especially > because we have so many mushrooms that grow out here. Not sure if > we'll be able to coordinate anything before we move. > > Anyway, another good resource if you want to learn more about wild > foods. > > Denise > " All things merge away into everything else. That is continuity. The flux and vagary of all things. Our submergence in a sea of conventionality of almost impenetrable density. " --Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Yes, that's true. Though I do not make a steady diet of wild edibles currently. I still feel it is fun and educational to learn about what is edible in the wild and ways to cook them etc. If I ever happen to wander off the beaten path and get lost in the deep Oregonian woods for days on end, such knowledge could be very useful. Okay, who is Euell Gibbons? *lol* ~ pt ~ The Celtic spirit does not avoid darkness, or shadows, or struggle, resting in a quiet assurance that even within the darkest of the dark lies a flickering flame of goodness. ~ Frank MacEowen, 'The Mist-Filled Path' ~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~~~> , The Stewarts <stews9@c...> wrote: > The trouble with wild food gathering is that one never knows what may have > gotten onto or into the plant. There are no controls or checks, no > regulation of such things as toxic run-offs, lead in the rain, PCBs in the > soil, etc. > > It's risky at best to eat a lot of wild food, sad to say. Look at how > fish have been rendered toxic by heavy metals and other pollutants, for > instance. > > Being Euell Gibbons is one thing, but in his day he didn't face nearly the > industrial sewage environment we now live in. Did you know that open-air > rooftop gardens tend to gather and concentrate the lead and other > pollutants found in car exhausts, for instance? It works the same way in > the wild but with less predictable results. > > So by all means enjoy the occasional wild foot but remember that many of > the bad things it may have been exposed to don't wash off, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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