It’s pretty horrible. The more I understand abt plants, the more I’m like - shit, this really don’t wanna be eaten.
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agoyeah i remember how shocked i was recently when i told somebody “the farmers don’t grow food, the plants grow food”. and they responded with “yeah but that’s their fate. plants literally exist to be eaten” and i was like “what if you said that about people? some people literally exist to be enslaved?”
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
Not true: many plants (such as nuts and fruits) demand to be eaten, and some literally cannot continue to grow unless they pass through an animal’s digestive tract first.
What they want is different than what you want.
xep@discuss.online 1 week ago
The plants want to be eaten by a specific animal. Human beings do not have any such symbiotic relationship with any plant I know of. You’d get very sick, for example, if you ate a Cassowary Plum.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Ok I might be biased because I eat plants every day but I think it doesn’t matter weather plant wanted specific animal to eat it’s fruits and all. The only reason they wanted that was because that increased likelihood of reproduction and we take care of that on an industrial scale better* than those animals could ever do. Sure we are also destroying the earth and making it harder for all living creatures so maybe plants were right…
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
The power of science offers humans the ability to eat many things that were not originally designed to be eaten by us.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Are you trying to say we need to grant plants personhood?
I think you might be creating a false equivalence when comparing using plants for stuff to literal slavery. Just a little bit.