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Aron Schatz

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Eating cotton seed

Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:45:47 PM #28528 Perm Link

Sounds good... Mmm.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10612

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Cottonseed contains about 22% protein, and the cotton already produced worldwide has enough protein to meet the requirements of 500 million people. But it also contains the toxin gossypol, making it poisonous to animals, including humans.

In people, gossypol lowers blood potassium to dangerous levels, resulting in fatigue and even paralysis. A surprising side effect is that gossypol is an effective male contraceptive, but research on this aspect was abandoned in the late 1990s. Attempts to eliminate gossypol from cotton plants in the 1960s and 1970s failed: insects that had previously been kept at bay by the toxin happily ate the modified plant.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:42:38 PM #28543 Perm Link

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well, i did not know that. that's quite dangerous.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:44:01 PM #28544 Perm Link

Good thing I never eat cotton seeds.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:45:29 PM #28545 Perm Link

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it's good though, i never ate one too.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:59:05 PM #28551 Perm Link

Why would you in the first place? I've never seen cotton on the menu at any place I go nor do I look at a cotton plant and say, "Mmm, that looks good!"

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:08:36 PM #28554 Perm Link

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no , i mean accidently.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:16:57 PM #28573 Perm Link

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We used to make cotton soup back at my old place (we had cotton bushes growing wild), and as a dare, we would make our friends eat it.. I ate it a few times too..

Well, I am a bit worried now.

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Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:19:45 PM #28577 Perm Link

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well if something was to happen, it might have happened a long ago!

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