Hey the music sounds nice! Thanks!
So, if you only eat fruits, is that strictly limited to the fruits of plants, or does that include the fruiting bodies of mycelium networks?
The fruiting bodies of mycelial networks, better known as mushrooms, are not plants, nor are they animals, but such life forms from the Fungi Kingdom inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide like animals do, and tracing their evolutionary branch reveals that they split from plants on the same branch that we animals did, meaning we animals are more closely related to fungi than we are to plants.
My point is that if it is considered moral and ethical to eat fruits, why not also mushrooms? Someone argued with me recently that it hurts the fungi to eat its fruit, but it wasn't a very convincing argument to me.
Like, if it's okay to pick a fruit, as long as you don't mangle the whole branch and scrape off the bark of the tree, isn't that also the case when you carefully remove the fruiting body from it's source of growth?
With a mushroom like a chanterelle, a handy knife can cut the stipe and separate the fruit without disturbing the subsoil network in any way, and with mushrooms like matsutake, their ends are tapered and you can just gently twist it right out of the ground as if it was meant to easily separated in this way.
It's my belief that the Fungi Kingdom is broadly overlooked by most humans as an ethical, sustainable, and ecological source of nutrition and immunological support. What are your thoughts on this?
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