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TESTIFYING TO GOD’S GREATNESS

Dr. Carver was passionate about teaching people how to eat and live healthy. In 1921 he testified before Congress on behalf of the United Peanut Association of America about the nutritional value of peanuts and sweet potatoes. This is part of what he said:

“Now, this is a combination and, by the way, one of the finest breakfast foods that you or anyone else has ever seen. It is a combination of the sweet potato and the peanut, and if you will pardon a little digression here I will state that the peanut and the sweet potato are twin brothers and can not and should not be separated. They are two of the greatest products that God has ever given us. The can be made into a perfectly balanced rations. If all of the other foodstuffs were destroyed—that is vegetable foodstuffs were destroyed—a perfectly balanced ration with all of the nutriment in it could be made with the sweet potato and the peanut. From the sweet potato we get starches and carbohydrates, and from the peanut we get all the muscle-building properties…”

Dr. Carver also wrote bulletins that included instructions on how to grow these products. He included recipes on how to cook and eat them, as well. One of his bulletins later became a book that is still sold today, How to Grow the Peanut: And 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption.

In 1906 Dr. Carver created the The Jesup Agricultural Wagon, a mobile classroom, that he drove to farms and used to teach the farmers and sharecroppers.

Dr. Carver lived his life discovering God’s creations and how they can benefit man. He then shared all that he discovered with everyone so that they could also enjoy God’s handiwork and come to know the Creator as well.

References: PBS Learning Media: George Washington Carver: Scientist, Inventor and Teacher https://whyy.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/americon-lp-george-w-carver/george-w-carver/

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library Internet Archives. (Images of How to grow the peanut : and 105 ways of preparing it for human consumption)