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It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don't exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don't exist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Culinary definition doesn't differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Separate culinary definitions? That's nuts!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But not peanuts, which are legumes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or the stone fruit, coconuts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Notch funds a real life Mooshroim when?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Fungi are a nervous system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

We actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.