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

  • The Ramen Dutchman
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    839 months ago

    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.

    • @ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca
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      729 months ago

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

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      119 months ago

      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.

        • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          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??

      • sunzu2
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        29 months ago

        First time hearing this but mushroom is a protein source so from diet perspective, I see it as a meet type food. Deff not vegatable

        • teft
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          9 months ago

          So are chickpeas or edamame meat to you? Because they have like 5 times as much protein by weight than mushrooms.

          • sunzu2
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            39 months ago

            I would go with, based totally on feelz, that no because it generally note used like that.

            As you think is all super science here, trust me bro

        • @protist@mander.xyz
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          109 months ago

          Mushrooms have some protein, but not very much. They aren’t a very good source of protein