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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Do you know that the bananas you probably eat (maybe not, idk you) are at risk of going functionally extinct because of a type of fungus? A similar thing happened with Gros Michel bananas, which are not actually extinct but commercially unviable due to said fungus.

    Many plants require multitudes of antibiotics, pest control poisons and other measures simply to be able to ship and supply grocery stores with enough ‘goods’ to fill shelves. Regardless of whether or not the majority of those ‘goods’ end up being thrown away. You are right in thinking that it is wrong — because it is.

    Lentils, for example, do very poorly when competing with weeds. This is why herbicides are required very early on to grow lentils, otherwise they simply won’t compete as well. It doesn’t really matter if it’s organic or not — you are still required to use those pesticides.

    One would think ‘well then maybe we shouldn’t grow as many lentils’ — and you’d be right! Now, say that to all the vegans that are more or less required to eat lentils due to their protein and vitamin content. Suddenly things aren’t nearly as clean cut as ‘simply don’t do the thing’.