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And when you eat those fruits, but then deposit your waste in a toilet and send it off to a sewage treatment plant, are you in harmony with that design or subve
by kscaldef 17y ago
And when you eat those fruits, but then deposit your waste in a toilet and send it off to a sewage treatment plant, are you in harmony with that design or subverting it?
- tptacek 17y agoWhat's your point? I'm just saying that it's not reasonable to anthropomorphize plants by saying they have behaviors and adverse reactions to damage.
- inglorian 17y agoActually, it doesn't really matter. Some argue that industrialized agriculture is in fact playing right into the plants' design. We contribute to their survival and spread by continually re-planting them -- corn, for example, is arguably the king of this kind of adaptation. For more on this, I highly recommend Michael Pollan's "Botany of Desire" or, for a shorter version, his TED talk on the same subject.
- kscaldef 17y agoI'm fine with that argument (although it seem to apply to raising animals as well). I was responding more to the parent's suggestion that certain parts of certain plants are designed to be eaten (and then pass through your digestive system and re-seeded). That bit of natures design doesn't work so well in the face of modern plumbing.