• OpenStars@piefed.social
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    7 hours 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.

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      7 hours ago

      The plants want the fruit 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.

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        The power of science offers humans the ability to eat many things that were not originally designed to be eaten by us.