Monday, March 12, 2012

Home GROWN natural penicillin: one of WWII's few AGRICULTURAL successes ....

In the beginning, WWII talked big - promising to put a Gas Chamber and Crematorium on the Moon and a Chicken in Every Pot, but as usual it was all just talk.

In the end it couldn't even do the simplest of things, like taking the garbage out and getting all the kids fed and on to school on time.

Amidst the HIGH TECH disaster that was WWII, there was one LOW TECH (agricultural) success, a quiet triumph of courage, hope and chivalry:

Martin Henry Dawson's PEN "G" project was New York's LOW TECH counterpart to the much better known HIGH TECH Manhattan Project.

Only this time it was humans working with Nature, not against it ; an effort to save lives, not take them.

Dawson grew mold, not food.

Millions of the kids who owed their lives to his natural systemic penicillin would not have really needed it if they had adequate food.

 Nevertheless he did his best, he did his bit - and above all he did it Nature's way, not Modernity's way.

When it came to making penicillin, his Natural approach batted One and Modernity's synthetic approach ended up batting Zero....

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