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I forage for mushrooms and I don't get why this is a problem we are even working on. The solution to people dying from mushrooms is to... not eat them. If peop
by jeffrallen 3y ago
I forage for mushrooms and I don't get why this is a problem we are even working on.
The solution to people dying from mushrooms is to... not eat them. If people cannot understand that, and we manage to save them, what's to keep them from walking in front of a bus the next day. I mean you can only overcome ignorance only so many times before Darwin eventually wins the game.
I don't want to blame the victim here, but it's not like the mushrooms stalk us and enter our mouths at night while we are sleeping.
- mosen 3y agoThey probably look pretty tasty to children.
- GuB-42 3y agoI wish we could implement your solution when it comes to war. The way to make war less deadly and terrible is to not fight wars, these guns don't fire themselves. If only life was so simple. You may say it is a bad argument as war depends on others, not just oneself, but in many instances of death cap mushroom poisoning, the victims are not the ones who picked and prepared the mushrooms, do they deserve death too?
- pvaldes 3y agoIt was used also for criminal purposes. Sometimes people is not offered the choice to not eat it. There is also a very similar species in a different genus (Amanitopsis, if I remember correctly) that are non toxic but are practically identical.
- _xerces_ 3y agoThere are a lot of cases where the people eating them were not the ones that foraged, but were fed them at a meal at someone's house. Further, there are reports of immigrants accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in the US, Europe and Australia because the poisonous ones bear a resemblance to otherwise safe mushrooms found in their home countries. Finally, you have to a be a little cold to think someone deserves death because they ate something unknown to them to be poisonous.