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• Slatlun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Having worked growing native plants for restoration efforts, I can say that this is 100% true. Our focus was on getting plants that will survive without any extra help after being put in the ground, so no fertilizer and limited water. A scraggly leaved plant with good roots would make it where something with lots of soft new growth would get eaten.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Survival of the most barely surviving

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, that’s exactly what evolution optimizes for - the good enoughest of all good enough solutions.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, yeah, that sucks, but what can we do about it? Grow less food?

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Distributing it more efficiently would help.

    I work at a warehouse during summers for a business that sells food on Amazon.

    A good half of the inventory went to trash on certain days for reasons ranging from “packaging slightly bruised” to “there is no AC here and we sell ice cream.”

    On that last note I really want to talk with the people buying dairy from amazon in Texas during summer.

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  • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Permaculture and healthy living soil would be the utopia

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not live under capitalism where food needs to be min-maxed like that because the goal is profit over sustainable nutritious production (and yeah I know we can’t just decide that as individuals). There’s plenty of peoples around the world and throughout history who have done and continue to do that.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t feed my plants nitrogen exclusively. But I let them have a little now & then, as a treat.

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ok, well, if I eat butter, I will be more delicious to bears and wolves. Doesn’t make butter somehow a problem.

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  • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most 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.

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    • oakward@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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    • 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?

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Will you though?

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At some point, yeah.

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