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One year, long ago, we lost 5 heifers to water hemlock poisoning.  It must 
affect them in a strange way, because one of the heifers was halfway through 
a barbed wire fence and died hanging over the bottom wire.
Also, everyone knows how deadly oleander is, to horses, to children....

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Elyse Carreno" <endur50@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [RC] [RC] Natural v. Un? natural???


> I can think of several "natural" substances that, when consumed in their 
> "natural" form are highly toxic and very deadly, and have no useful or 
> positive effects at all.  A few bites of the root of a water hemlock is 
> enough to kill a one-ton bull.  I've had the unpleasant experience of 
> finding half a dozen cows dead in one small patch of the variety of 
> larkspur that grows in creek bottoms.  I nearly lost a classmate when I 
> was in elementary school because he consumed a little bit of a toxic plant 
> that grows around here--I think it was henbane, but don't recall for sure. 
> In some instances, critters can get enough cyanide from naturally 
> occurring fruit pits to be lethal.
>
> No, it doesn't take humans "messing around" with many substances to make 
> them toxic--they just come that way "naturally..."
>
> Heidi



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