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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by hyperhopper on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:28PM (#38756563)
> We don't even know what we're missing.

The plants that are being neglected aren't unknown, they are just not as useful

> Jfc. Plants aren't just for food.

Nobody said they were. Stop inventing strawman arguments

> indigenous people dwindle from the planet, their knowledge of useful plants disappears and their potential becomes lost on us.

Source required. What important plant knowledge is being lost?

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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by numtel on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:51PM (#38757808)
We literally do not know what we lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide

When rubber industrialists wiped out the people living in the area, those that remained lost generational knowledge. Ethnobotanists like Shultes explored the Amazon afterwards.

There's even a movie made on the subject of exploring the Amazon for medicines with Sean Connery, Medicine Man. Also, the more recent Embrace of the Serpent.

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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by alexey-salmin on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:49AM (#38763545)
When you personally are sick do you go to a doctor or to a shaman?
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