Dino poo
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tryptaminev@feddit.de 7 months agoAnd what about the ~700 million years before cows existed?
Gingernate@programming.dev 7 months ago
tryptaminev@feddit.de 7 months ago
And where did the Dinos get the poo from? From eating plants. Plants that either used bioavailable nitrogen or captured nitrogen from the air.
The nitrogen cycle has been interconnected between soil, air and biomass nitrogen since forever. There simply is no fundamental need to use mineral fertilizers, as was claimed in a comment earlier.
Gingernate@programming.dev 7 months ago
Yep exactly.
person420@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
They did exist (or some form of it), just not in quantities that could feed billions of people.
Most of the plants we eat today are products of selective breeding to make them more palatable and easier to mass produce.