Paul Saladino· MD
Plants don’t want to be eaten (except their fruit) so they’ve developed defense chemicals to dissuade this in their stems, leaves, roots, and seeds...
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Plants don’t want to be eaten (except their fruit) so they’ve developed defense chemicals to dissuade this in their stems, leaves, roots, and seeds...
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you are rooted in the ground you must evolve some sort of Defense chemicals if you truly wish to survive or participate in this arms race quote unquote as it were between animals and plants