Known by several names, including grasspea and chickling pea, it is grown primarily for livestock feed.
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Eating the chickling pea with grain having high concentrations of sulphur-based amino acids reduces the risk of lathyism if grain is available.
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The children include " mouse, " the gentle five-year-old little mother with her brother, her " chickling; " Richard, who cannot imagine that there might exist anything like disinterested kindness and he conceives of every relation between two human beings as a bargain; Adam, the strong and noisy leader of the older boys and a great boaster, the girls who admire him because they are afraid of him.