Crops Turn Poisonous In Warming World
July 6, 2009
A farm worker collects cassava at the expropriated and now redistributed farm of El Charcote in the central state of Cojedes March 25, 2009.
Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva
THE DOSE MAKES THE POISON
Australian scientists have found that in a warming world, food like cassava (which makes tapioca) and sorghum (kind of like rice) produce more cyanide poison (a paralyzing poison). Apparently it’s a higher risk of poisoning especially during a drought.
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Entry Filed under: Agriculture, Food, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, climate change. Tags: Africa, cassava, climate change, climate chaos, crops, farming, global warming, grains, root, sorghum, tapioca, tuber, yield.
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