> Chickling peas taste fine, but gradually and permanently paralyze your legs.
According to Wikipedia, this is only if you eat them for a long period. Otherwise the first sentence in its article makes no sense:
> Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, white pea and white vetch, is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa.
Unless there is some way known to render them safe, as for the other toxic plants noted here: "L. sativus needs soaking and thorough cooking to reduce toxins", "Breeding programs are underway to produce lines of L. sativus that produce less ODAP", and "Some authors have argued that this toxicity is overstated, and L. sativus is harmless as part of a normal diet."
People carry on about cyanide in peach pits, but as a youngster I ate them like almonds and never suffered for it.
According to Wikipedia, this is only if you eat them for a long period. Otherwise the first sentence in its article makes no sense:
> Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, white pea and white vetch, is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa.