Eating Leps or their host plants could be worse than drinking a little diluted insecticide

[Bob Parcelles,Jr.]

--- Paul Cherubini <monarch at saber.net> wrote:
> mbpi at juno.com wrote:
> 
> > I've eaten Escargot and sauteed, newly emerged Cicadas
> > (which tasted like freshly "cut grass" to my discerning
> palate...), so
> > I'm open to "unusual culinary experiences."
> 
> In the last two days I've received the following two e-mails
> about
> severe toxic eye reactions of three different people who
> handled 
> milkweed plants or monarch butterfly chrysalids (names of the
> blinded 
> people have been witheld for privacy reasons). Now imagine
> what could have 
> happened if they had eaten the milkweed leaves or monarch
> chrysalids!
> 
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Hi Paul,

I suggest we stamp out milkweed and these horrible tasting
leps. I am sue you could recomend the proper pesticides. Or
perhaps we could all follow Socrates and drink hemlock.

Distastfully yours,

Bob

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Bob Parcelles, Jr
Pinellas Park, FL
rjparcelles at yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturepotpourri
http://rainforest.care2.com/welcome?w=976131876
 "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
                       --William Shakespeare

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