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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FYI they are very fucking small nowhere near as big as in this image. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp

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    • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nature is so fucking WEEEEIRD

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      • denaggels@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Actually it’s not. This is 100% human fault. Fig trees and fig wasps from the same (natural) area do not have this problem. When (I believe California?) imported a ton of trees and wasps to cultivate giant fig farms, they just didn’t care that the wasps they got would die during pollination. It was a known issue, that just got ignored. Completely preventable.

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    • Prontomomo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you look at the detail in the ghosty wasp, it’s clear that it’s just an edited image of a wasp pasted onto a fig

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      • Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I wonder where they got that image from…

        The first result for a fig wasp in a search engine? Nah, that’d be too obvious!

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      nowhere as big as in this image

      Yeah when they’re alive, but everyone knows you grow larger when you become a ghost

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I went and looked that up on my own and I could’ve just clicked into the comments?!

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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When i came to the post there were no comments to quell my worries so i had to check and share what i found :D

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  • 58008@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would this render figs off limits for vegans and vegetarians? 🤔

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No wonder God hates figs

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why fig newtons taste like delicious hate

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use them when I need to channel the ghosts of 1000 angry wasps.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, that’s just the sugar. Someone decided figs weren’t sweet enough and that they should add sugar to them.

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    • HypnoticSheep@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      hey I think you might be allergic to fig newtons

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  • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great. My stomach is now haunted by wasp ghosts.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the bitter pistachio nuts are bitter because you’re eating a dead worm that died inside the nut.

    Always, always, always double check the pistachio before you eat it. Learned it the hard way and have spread the word ever since. People’s reactions are always the same chock horror expression when they realize what the bitter pistachios really are.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn’t read this.

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If the nut looks slightly deformed and/or is dark in the shell and the nut inside is dark, it is not because it was roasted. It’s because there is a worm inside. There’s often a bit of web inside as well. That is not a part of the pistachio. That is the worm’s web.

        I know. It is traumatic, but you know now and I’m glad that you do.

        The only bad thing about realizing this about pistachios is that I have personally struggled to eat them since, and they used to be one of my favourite snacks.

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      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I read it, but I’m going to try and forget it as soon as possible.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean… Is it harmful? Otherwise, protein!

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the spirit! But honestly, they taste so awful, dude. That was why I started inspecting them in the first place.

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  • Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    BIG FIG WASP

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    • Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did your god know, insects grow, in my pome?

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can vegans eat figs?

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most vegans do. The general idea is to avoid exploiting animals, but the wasps are living out their natural life cycle.

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    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Vegans eat other foods that use fertilizer. Fertilizers could contain meat or meat byproducts… So…

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      • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think I heard recently that one of the mushrooms that is popular as a vegan meat substitute lives off of some sort of living creature like insects or something.

        But realistically, it’s all the circle of life. Animal life is part of the circle. Probably all plants have consumed nutrients that came from an animal in some way.

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      • username_1@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fertilizers could contain meat

        Can you provide an example? Sounds strange. Too expensive.

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      not if they have trypophobia

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ethical vegans want to avoid suffering. If figs cause suffering is a philosophical question.

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    • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not these figs.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ffs they won’t eat honey, and that’s only because you’re stealing the fruits of the bees’ labor. I would assume the International Vegan Council outright bans figs with extreme prejudice.

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      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they won’t eat honey, and that’s only because you’re stealing the fruits of the bees’ labor

        Not the only reason. For example, an infamous and common practice in the honey industry is to cut off the queen’s wings, ensuring the hive has no choice but to stay there and produce honey.

        I’ve never met a vegan who won’t eat figs; their relationship with fig wasps is symbiotic, and yes, excluding fruit on the basis that “eating the fruit of a pollinated plant is exploiting the pollinator” probably far oversteps the “practicable” part of veganism:

        Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

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    • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had a friend that didn’t eat figs for this reason.

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      • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah I have a coworker who avoids certain varieties (many varieties don’t include wasps in the normal lifecycle)

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This actually explains the infamous Fig Newton Debacle of ‘92, which my extended family is still divided over.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      New! Fig Newtons: Oops! All Wasps!

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only way to get food that doesn’t contain bugs and rat shit is to grow it indoors, in virtually hermetically sealed rooms.

    Also, the more processed your food, the more material you don’t want it contains. Which is why I’m surprised that so many vegans are on the fake meat bandwagon. The fact that they eat so much processed food clearly shows the claim that they’re doing it for health is poorly thought out.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which is why I’m surprised that so many vegans are on the fake meat bandwagon. The fact that they eat so much processed food clearly shows the claim that they’re doing it for health is poorly thought out.

      This a fundamental misunderstanding of what veganism is. Veganism is:

      a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

      A plant-based diet for health is normally a “whole foods plant-based diet”, for which a mountain of well-studied health benefits exist. But vegans who are vegan for the animals can have any level of care about their own health that they want just like any omnivore can; that part is a spectrum.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So that’s why god hates figs

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    • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, Jesus literally said as much.

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      • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I want to believe.

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  • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought for sure this was a joke.

    It isn’t.

    This happens.

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ew tryptophobia.

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