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		apsurd on Oct 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Plants Are Saying About Us That eating a plant's babies is bad is easily false if my 6th grade education serves me: plants bear delicious energy rich fruit so animals eat them and spread the seeds via digestive system. poop.

thelastgallon on Oct 7, 2023 [–]

Seeds are the babies, not the flesh. Nobody consumes fruits for seeds. Grains don’t need this mechanism, they are fine spreading by wind.

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