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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck grass. Anything grass can do, other plants can do better. Except maybe c4 photosynthesis, but that hasn't been necessary so far.

[–] oasis@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, because fuck biodiversity.

Let's just kill all the native grass and plant the "best" plant everywhere because it's objectively "better".

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, because fuck biodiversity.

Have you ever seen how grass grows? It is the exact opposite of biodiversity. Even the grazing herbivores who usually eat grass stand to benefit from the eradication of grass and its replacement with a more diverse assortment of vegetation. Even the animal exploitation industry's own publications explain the nutritional benefits of leguminous and other non-grass "forage" and attempt to calculate the amount of grass that can be included in the animals' diets (in order to save money) without compromising weight gain. I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.

So yes, let's kill all the "native" grass and plant a diverse array of trees, shrubs, palms, forbs, vines, and herbaceous ground-covers. Everyone in the world would benefit except perhaps the ruling class and a few other parasites.

[–] oasis@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, let's not kill an entire class of native plants and replace it with artificially introduced plants. That's gonna go perfectly well because human intervention like that usually goes so well.

I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.

Well duh. Of course they prefer to eat something else once in a while after eating grass all day.

I'm all for planting more native other plants in gardens or whatever and maybe some more native plants in nature. But ripping up an entire native ecosystem that has been there for millions of years because you dislike it is utterly deranged.