I had no idea. That is amazing.
I stopped eating most starchy vegetables for a variety of reasons, but one of them was when I learned about anti nutrients. Plants, being living organisms fighting for survival, aren't nutritious for us. They are JUST nutritious enough. While we can absorb a bunch of nutrients from them, most people don't realize that most plants contain ALL KINDS of chemicals and compounds designed to make it difficult for animals to predate on them.
For example, I learned that about 5 raw red kidney beans can kill and adult.
Great example.
Ahh, yeah, exactly. Plants can't move around so they develop all sorts of diabolical ways to ward off predators.
I like the theory around Cannabis, shrooms, and other hallucinogens. Lol, the animal eats some, gets high, wanders off, falls asleep, and forgets where they found that crazy plant.
I so often laugh when people talk about the dangers of synthetic chemicals, blah blah blah. Nature is a million times more devious and deadly. Arsenic in apple seeds. Poisonous beans, potatoes, fruits, nuts.
Yep. Life. If you can't appreciate it's grandeur, there's something wrong with you.
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