[permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs

[steve_burns at wvi.org]

Dear Penny,

While I would completely agree with you about the general principle of
avoiding excesses of any one plant, I have eaten small amounts of comfrey
in salad before - plus added it to stir fry.  I have heard that it's
illegal in Australia (or Victoria?) to encourage people to eat it... is
there any truth to this urban myth?

I believe young comfrey leaves pan-fried in batter are a southern European
delicacy and I've seen them so displayed on a cooking show in Australia....
wonder if the lawyers missed that one?
:)
Steve


                                                                           
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 Robyn wrote: My piggies absolutely love comfrey – haven’t let them loose
 on the comfrey patch but they enjoy eating both leaves and roots. I’m
 considering expanding my comfrey production for all my animals.
 Ciao
 Robyn

 "Moderation in all things good and abstinence from all things bad" was the
 motto of an organisation called the Health and Temperence Society which
 used to send their monthly magazine to primary school in the far distant
 past!

 Herbals whether plants or medication are not necessarily harmless!
 Comfrey got a bad name when a young fellow who ate comfrey died and its
 toxicity was blamed [someone lse said he was on a grape fast and didn't
 wash off the spray!].  I have only seen comfrey used as an external
 poultice, I haven't yet come across anyone who actually ingested it.

 As pigs [bless them] are close enough to us to suffer the similarly
 whether from food, toxins, diseases, blows [forensics use pig carcass to
 test weapons] and be sensitive to the same things.

 Steady on the comfy, Robyn.

 Besides, I am suspicious of anything with a hairy leaf being ingested.
 Its a long time ago, but remember that case in China where chooks and
 humans were suffering from growths in the oesophagus, fatal for the
 chooks, and early deaths for the humans?  Scientists eventually put that
 down to the hairy husks of a grain both were eating.

 P Ferguson
 Illawarra NSW

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