Plants took control of a species that now nurtures them, fights off their predators and weeds out the competition. That species even goes to the extent of damaging its own health to keep the plants happy with pesticides and other questionable chemicals. In return, the plant bribes the species with some edible part.
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PineRune@lemmy.world 1 day agoMost people don’t live near hordes and hordes of hungry bears and wolves, and those that do are typically prepared to defend themselves or flee. Plants can do neither.
oakward@feddit.org 1 day ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Plants have an amazing variety of ways to defend themselves. Thorns. Chemical warfare. Being really fucking big.
You think plants spent 1.2 billion years on earth and didnt adapt to predation?
PineRune@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their most amazing survival trait is evolving to domesticate humans into protecting them and providing lush environments for them to thrive.
But on a serious note a lot of agricultural plants do not have any of those listed survival traits, not at least not to the extent that people will not use pesticides.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
The problem is for us, not the plants. Nature will survive and adapt, but we make it difficult for ourselves foremost and the nature we try to preserve, whilst simultaneously doing everything to screw that over.
So our hypocrisy is the main culprit here.
Kayday@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine losing the genetic lottery so bad that survival of the fittest means getting eaten and having your killer shit your reproductive material out somewhere for your line to continue.
Emi@ani.social 1 day ago
Plenty of plants use this methods to spread their seeds tho. It’s just the fruit that gets eaten not the entire plant.