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Gasping horse noises
Suddenly reminded of “My Stepmother Is An Alien”. Thanks.
Actually I may have misremembered the title of it.
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Wait, there is? Huh, then a lot of stuff is missing it.
But I’m not gonna tag all of that.
Cultivators also made bananas easier to eat by eliminating all the seeds from wild ones.
Or really we ended up breeding the toxins out of these close cousins out of the plants over time and learned to eat them as a result.
Originally corn cobs were ridiculously small, too much so to be worth it. Pea pods as well had a habit of wildly exploding when something brushes up against them scattering the edible seeds, same applies in some way to wheat grass.
One way or another some early human found a mutated version of the above plants, ate it or took it home, and inadvertently found later the progeny of the plant they ate earlier and weren’t killed by growing out of their shit or their every-day refuse.
Oh yeah, the fact that we breathe the death gas and live on the planet covered in solvents.
Relevant:
Humans are scary
Edited because: linkify link
Or humans are just the crazy monsters who don’t know they’re crazy monsters. Like, the whole idea of the ‘zombie bite’ is hilariously appropriate because a human biting something in real life has a strong chance of killing it from disease. We are adept hunters because we can relentlessly stalk things until most animals are too worn out to get away or effectively fight back.
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Tobacco is another close relative of the nightshade family. If you ate a cigarette, there’s enough nicotine in it to kill the average adult human several times over. Nicotine is a deadly toxin, and people who smoke are lucky that their bodies absorb so little of it that way–though it could also be argued, that much is too much also.
It’s strange how belladonna and tobacco are so toxic, yet their close cousins potatoes and tomatoes are cultivated by humans as food crops.
But then we cultivate garlic and onions to eat too, both of which contain chemicals that are very toxic to almost all other mammals. We eat chocolate, which is a deadly poison to cats and dogs and I think horses too.
Nature is weird.
Potatoes are in the nightshade family, which could be used to make scopolamine.
Scopolamine, the zombie drug.
There are things I know, that I shouldn’t know.
Humans can also get poisoned by green potatoes.
Only somewhat true. The top leafy part of the potato plant is indeed especially toxic because of a glycoalkaloid called solanine. But in the tuber, aka the food product people call a potato, the bulk of the alkaloid is in the peel and only when green. Potatoes turn green when exposed to sunlight because the alkaloid is its natural insecticide protection. It would take about 6 lbs of green peelings to poison the average quarter-horse. The core of the tuber, even raw, is not directly toxic to equines because the concentration isn’t high enough. And once it’s cooked its a non-issue. It’s perfectly safe to give your horse mashed potatoes or french fries once in a while. But if you make a habit of it, it will make them fat in a hurry because horses are especially adept at starch to glucose conversion. It’s essentially the same as giving them a whole box of sugar cubes.
Ensure masher is not fed while mashing.
no ?
The many broken tables/counters. (cause earth ponies are strong)
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People thought tomatoes were poisonous because they used to eat from pewter plates and the acid in the tomatoes leached lead from the pewter and poisoned them.
People used to think Tomatoes were poisonous until a guy ate one in front of a crowd to prove they weren’t.
Potato, Tomato.
These plants are members of the nightshade (Solanaccae) family and they can kill horses.