Jim Duke's Poem in the Spirit of the "Traditional Nutrition &

Intergalactic Garage (igg@igg.com)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:11:58 -0500

Jim Duke (GREEN PHARMACY) says he wrote this little ditty (below) for the
1998 Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference:
"Traditional Nutrition & Restorative Agriculture" which is being held Oct
2-4, Claymont Court, Charles Town, WV. (And then again, he says, maybe he
didn't ;-)

The conference features speakers on herbalism, biodynamics, traditional
nutrition, permaculture and other approaches to restoring both ourselves
and our Earth.

More information on the conference, which was conceived of by organizer
Allan Balliett (allan@intrepid.net) after a reading of Jared Diamond's
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" on the way to BIONEERS '97, (www.bioneers.org) is
available at:

http://www.igg.com/bdnow/bdconf98.html

(these pages are expanded frequently)

The Poem:

Beans, Genes & Genistein

Chemophobia, I call it, synthetic fears
Tamoxiphen's with us some twenty years
Only three years for raloxifene
But our genes long know the genistein!
Maybe some three million years,
Back when Homo (the genus) appears;
Primates grazin the Rift Valley green;
Long they’ve known the genistein!
If my love had breast cancer genes,
I’d rather she took a bowl of beans;
Something that her genes have seen;
They’ve never seen raloxifene!

Angio and Endostatin. miracle cures?
Will kure kancer, Kolata assures
Stop angiogenesis, stopping the cancer,
But genistein's a cheaper answer

Mom and dad were really kinda funny
Corn bread, cabbage, greens and beans
They didn't leave me a whole lot of money
But a gracious plenty of well worn genes.

--Jim Duke

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database:

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/index.html

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