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

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[–] 81 points 2 years ago (17 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.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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??

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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