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If "study finds" anything, it's safe to run away from it. It's the same studies that found "cholesterol free" toxic plant oils (that they produce just to preven
by DuckFeathers 4y ago
If "study finds" anything, it's safe to run away from it. It's the same studies that found "cholesterol free" toxic plant oils (that they produce just to prevent from being eaten) to be healthier than the ONE COMMON food ingredient that all of humanity has had in their diets: "animal fats"... it's the same studies that found untested, unproven vaccines to be "safe and effective".
"Study finding it beneficial" is a signal that people have stopped eating shitty low-nutrient, low quality, cheap to grow fungus... but they really want to sell it for a premium.
Unlike fruit-bearing plants, fungus do not benefit from anything or anyone eating them... so fungus have no incentive to be symbiotic. There is no reason to eat fungus except in the face of starvation.
- xipix 4y agoEdible mushrooms do benefit from being eaten. Their total biomass is today much greater than if they'd remained naturally-selected, growing in the wild. That said, the evolutionary feedback loop of incrementally more intelligent humans farming and eating them does seem tenuous.
- Nasrudith 4y agoSaid feedback loop would start with discovery of any benefits. Anything amazing probably would be expensive energetically to select for, let alone the stupid odds of developing an intelligence increaser. Ironically the hypotheical smart mushroom would probably be mostly "betrayed" if synthesizing is more efficient post discovery, relegating it to a niche curiosity at best.