[MPWG] eat the weeds

[Danna J. Leaman]

Thanks to Bob for pointing out the risk of inadvertently contributing to the 
spread of alien invasive plants by promoting their edibility.  While I 
appreciate the conservation intent, I doubt that it will be effective as a 
conservation/eradication measure, and might also undermine hard-won progress 
on public perception of the severity and urgency of the problem.

Danna Leaman
Chair, IUCN-SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Beyfuss" <rlb14 at cornell.edu>
To: <MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: [MPWG] eat the weeds


>I think eating weeds is a good idea, many of them are far more nutritious 
>than their cultivated counterparts, i.e. dandelion. I will send her lots of 
>recipes from an Extension bulletin I wrote in 1977.  I am not so sure 
>publishing recipes for invasive plants is a good idea. The reason we have 
>some of these plants today is because they were purposely introduced as 
>food crops for us or cattle, i.e., Kudzu. As recently as last year I saw 
>garlic mustard seed for sale in a catalogue as an edible green.
> Bob
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