With the kind permission of the author, I thought I would forward this
as I personally found it fascinating! Bound to cause controversy ;-)

Regards
Karen


>
> Further to last month's thread, a 'permaculture' friend just sent me
> this:
>
> "Jane Cobbald had also all but given up on the slug infestations when
> she did
> some research and now she assists the Schauberger Institute in
promoting
> copper based implementations. Slugs are drawn to magnetic disturbance
> caused by the use of iron implements. While humans have haemoglobin
> (iron
> based) and have our own individual electromagnetic fields, Slugs have
a
> blood type Haemocyanin - which is copper based, with no el. field of
> their
> own and are drawn to positive electromagnetic charges in the soil -
> where
> trowels, spades and other iron-based shovels etc have been slicing
into
> the
> soil creating positive electromagnetic charges. Jane's article is
most
> interesting and is posted on the www.implementations.co.uk site (at
the
> end
> of the homepage) - 'Learning to Love slugs and snails!'. Two years
> later
> she has hardly a snail in sight. Copper is conductive and leaves no
> magnetic residue - rather it connects up any breaks in the magnetic
> field.
> "I've started using a small hard plastic trowel, and have ordered some
> hand-made copper implements. I'm looking for other sources for
> copper tools."
>
> Donal
>
>
>