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It’s not a risk if you know what you are doing. Then again I don’t forage for mushrooms that look like phalloides, besporigeras or marginatas. I stick with ones that are easily identifiable like Lions Mane, Oyster, Lobster, chanterelles, morels, porcinis, matsutakes and the like.
It gets you outdoors and learning your land, even if you are just observing/documenting and not collecting for food. That said, I don’t get the people that roll the dice with iffy picks or trusting roadside vendors without experience. They are crazy. Amatoxin death sounds gnarly.
You have a point with the "gets you outdoors and learning your land" thing. When I worked at a nursing home, sometimes we brought the residents into a courtyard. One of the ladies loved going around and spotting different types of mushrooms. Not to eat, just to observe. We were impressed with how many different ones we found in such a small area, which makes me wonder how many more I'd be able to see if I were to go into the nearby woods. Either way, it was a pleasant way to enjoy the outdoors, especially as this was during the Covid lockdown when we couldn't even take day trips out of the facility.
Everyone always claims to know what they're doing. That's the problem. They buy a book of Amazon and then claim that that makes them an expert.
There are literally hundreds of millions of people who go mushroom hunting every year and don't die horrifically, you only hear about these few cases specifically because they are so rare. It is a very common pastime.