ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.message-squaremessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1271arrow-down1message-squareI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square99fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up83arrow-down3·3 months agoI overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it’s fine, those are plants”. No amount of convincing worked. So I’ve seen it once.
minus-squareShaggyBlarney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down3·3 months agoMushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·3 months agoYup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months agoCulinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoSeparate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·3 months agoIf anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That’s a mushroom, much more than a plant.
minus-squareSatyrSack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoThe mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoso hang on, mushrooms are like uh, well not milk, but as if say a cow regrew its meat every season? or maybe like a lizard that regrows its tail? mushrooms are weird, man wild idea, would it be possible to hijack mycelium with animal DNA and make it grow mushroom shaped meat??
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·3 months agoActual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoFungi are a nervous system.
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoWe actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoSo are chickpeas or edamame meat to you? Because they have like 5 times as much protein by weight than mushrooms.
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoMushrooms have some protein, but not very much. They aren’t a very good source of protein
I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it’s fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.
So I’ve seen it once.
Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.
Culinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
Separate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!
But not peanuts, which are legumes.
Or the stone fruit, coconuts.
If anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That’s a mushroom, much more than a plant.
The mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.
so hang on, mushrooms are like uh, well not milk, but as if say a cow regrew its meat every season? or maybe like a lizard that regrows its tail?
mushrooms are weird, man
wild idea, would it be possible to hijack mycelium with animal DNA and make it grow mushroom shaped meat??
Notch funds a real life Mooshroim when?
Actual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?
Fungi are a nervous system.
We actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.
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So are chickpeas or edamame meat to you? Because they have like 5 times as much protein by weight than mushrooms.
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Mushrooms have some protein, but not very much. They aren’t a very good source of protein