Vegetables are all like, eat me I'm delicious. Why do we have such a wide variety of nutritious plants? God? Symbiotic evolution of sophisticated natural systems we have yet to fully comprehend? What's in it for the onyo?
Virtually all domestic vegetables we know and love today are genetically modified versions of the plant (through millenia of selective breeding, not in a lab), and usually barely resemble their wild counterparts.
I watched someone talk about this the other month. This actually isn't true at all.
Vegetables are in a perpetual state of war with the animals that eat them. Most vegetables are highly poisonous. For example, did you know that eating only 4 or 5 uncooked kidney beans can kill you?
Ineed to find the video but, they amount of damage vegetables do to us is kind of amazing.
I did not know that. Vegetable war could be a mechanism in some broader system, like the ecosystem. Don't ask me how, I'm an idea guy.
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