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Seems like an appeal to nature fallacy. If humans are ensuring that the plants reproduce, you don’t need to ‘set the dial lower.’ Almost all of our fruits and v
by whythre 5y ago
Seems like an appeal to nature fallacy. If humans are ensuring that the plants reproduce, you don’t need to ‘set the dial lower.’ Almost all of our fruits and vegetables provide more nourishment than their naturally occurring counterparts. This is merely a continuation of that process.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoI do not think that I'm saying what you seem to be replying to. I merely asked why this mutation has not occurred in the wild if it is beneficial in the wild. And it was answered that it is not beneficial, in the wild. Farmed crops have different characteristics to wild plants, due to selection by the crop eaters. We know this very well. The same selection by crop eater is present in plants with berries where the seeds are dispersed by birds. The "appeal" and "fallacy" is you reading in a subtext that was not intended.