insipid, I read the suggestion as for
biodiesel feedstock. That's not literally food for anything, except cars and other machines. I don't personally know of castor bean's usefulness in biodiesel, but it seems like a good avenue to research.
As to ricin being the LSD of poison, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Is it a synthetic hallucinogen that people in law enforcement get overly excited about?
I've been working on a
project that I call the
sustainable wildcrafters network, for people to sell their weeds, their regeneratively-gathered wild medicinals, and their managed invasive medicinals directly to users. I need a few more people to express interest so I have motivation to actually finish the site. If you'd be interested in joining the network and testing it and giving me feedback, please send me a private message.