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• person420@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dino poo

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  • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep exactly.

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