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I think it's fitting that the parent poster used supermarkets. They're a relatively recent thing and often seen as lower quality. In my country it's still relat
by Aerroon 2y ago
I think it's fitting that the parent poster used supermarkets. They're a relatively recent thing and often seen as lower quality. In my country it's still relatively common for people to forage for mushrooms and berries in the forests. There's no regulatory oversight over that, but people are still fine.
Supermarkets and this kind of regulation hasn't necessarily stood the test of time. It's hard to say if it will considering how every system that gets built seems to slowly get corrupted or bent in somebody's favor.
- skybrian 2y agoPeople are fine if they didn’t eat the wrong mushrooms.
- veunes 2y agoSometimes i might turn out to be a good experience
- spdustin 2y agoThe forests in which people are foraging for mushrooms and berries have no need to optimize for profit. The moment humans get involved in the supply chain, the more the need for some form of (idealized, for sure) oversight from agencies.
- skybrian 2y agoEvolution results in other incentives. Beware the assumption that nature is somehow benevolent. It can go either way. Some mushrooms are poisonous. They evolved to protect themselves from being eaten. On the other hand, some plants evolved so their fruit will be eaten and spread their seeds. And then there are diseases and parasites.
- ericjmorey 2y ago"People that didn't get seriously ill or die are fine" is a bad argument.