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So are those negative or positive effects?

Say Goodbye to Your Pretty Lawn
Thanks to global warming, dandelions will grow “taller, lusher, and more resilient.”

That's definitely a positive effect. People lather their lawns with chemicals and waste water on it anyway. It's a frigging lawn. Who gives a damn?

And besides, the dandelion happens to be the best wild vegetable resource in the world. I think my only intake of dandelions, however, has been by way of hot tea. The Amish in eastern Ohio "harvest" dandelions, and they or others use them in various products. I saw dandelion wine for sale.

So this other effect on that list "Say Goodbye to French Wines" is solved with global warming. We'll drink dandelion wine.

I even own a 150-page book I bought in Amish country titled The Dandelion Celebration - A Guide to Unexpected Cuisine.

You would think that the Center for American Progress would be aware of the health benefits of dandelions. According to the book, dandelions can:

• prevent or cure liver diseases, such as hepatitis, cirrhosis or jaundice
• act as a tonic and gentle diuretic to purify your blood, cleanse your system, dissolve kidney stones, and otherwise improve gastro-intestinal health
• assist in weight reduction
• improve your vision
• cleanse your skin and eliminate acne
• improve your bowel function, working equally well to relieve both constipation and diarrhea
• prevent or lower high blood pressure
• prevent or cure anemia
• lower your serum cholesterol by as much as half
• eliminate or drastically reduce acid indigestion and gas buildup by cutting the heaviness of fatty foods
• prevent or cure various forms of cancer
• prevent or help control diabetes

So global warming may actually help with our health care problem because people will let the lawns grow wild, and then consume the dandelions growing in their yard. Apparently, you can eat the dandelion roots, greens, and flowers. Remember that in early May when you see lakes of yellow in the fields around Toledo. That's good health blooming out there.

posted by jr on Sep 25, 2007 at 11:34:45 pm     #

Just had a discussion about wine-making which seems more active and interesting than wine snobbing...nevertheless dandelions came up.

Until they make a synthetic dandelion, charge 200 times the cost production for something with some tack-on wacky side effects, and require a health minister's prescription, I ain't touching it.

posted by charlatan on Sep 26, 2007 at 12:36:37 am     #

Apparantly there'll still be plenty of Bullshit going on tho, Thank goodness for that

posted by billy on Sep 26, 2007 at 08:06:34 am     #

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