Yeah, I really don’t care for the blanket demonization of a plant family which is an important part of many ecosystems. Grasses are so much more than suburban lawns.
Have you ever seen how grass grows? It is the exact opposite of biodiversity. Even the grazing herbivores who usually eat grass stand to benefit from the eradication of grass and its replacement with a more diverse assortment of vegetation. Even the animal exploitation industry’s own publications explain the nutritional benefits of leguminous and other non-grass “forage” and attempt to calculate the amount of grass that can be included in the animals’ diets (in order to save money) without compromising weight gain. I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.
So yes, let’s kill all the “native” grass and plant a diverse array of trees, shrubs, palms, forbs, vines, and herbaceous ground-covers. Everyone in the world would benefit except perhaps the ruling class and a few other parasites.
Yeah, let’s not kill an entire class of native plants and replace it with artificially introduced plants.
That’s gonna go perfectly well because human intervention like that usually goes so well.
I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.
Well duh. Of course they prefer to eat something else once in a while after eating grass all day.
I’m all for planting more native other plants in gardens or whatever and maybe some more native plants in nature. But ripping up an entire native ecosystem that has been there for millions of years because you dislike it is utterly deranged.
Or has been so extensively selected by humans (intentionally or unintentionally) that it no longer resembles the original wild form. Either way, the world would be a more pleasant place without grass.
You know that there is native grass, right?
Yeah, I really don’t care for the blanket demonization of a plant family which is an important part of many ecosystems. Grasses are so much more than suburban lawns.
Fuck grass. Anything grass can do, other plants can do better. Except maybe c4 photosynthesis, but that hasn’t been necessary so far.
Yeah, because fuck biodiversity.
Let’s just kill all the native grass and plant the “best” plant everywhere because it’s objectively “better”.
Have you ever seen how grass grows? It is the exact opposite of biodiversity. Even the grazing herbivores who usually eat grass stand to benefit from the eradication of grass and its replacement with a more diverse assortment of vegetation. Even the animal exploitation industry’s own publications explain the nutritional benefits of leguminous and other non-grass “forage” and attempt to calculate the amount of grass that can be included in the animals’ diets (in order to save money) without compromising weight gain. I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.
So yes, let’s kill all the “native” grass and plant a diverse array of trees, shrubs, palms, forbs, vines, and herbaceous ground-covers. Everyone in the world would benefit except perhaps the ruling class and a few other parasites.
Yeah, let’s not kill an entire class of native plants and replace it with artificially introduced plants. That’s gonna go perfectly well because human intervention like that usually goes so well.
Well duh. Of course they prefer to eat something else once in a while after eating grass all day.
I’m all for planting more native other plants in gardens or whatever and maybe some more native plants in nature. But ripping up an entire native ecosystem that has been there for millions of years because you dislike it is utterly deranged.
Allegedly. We can’t know that for sure, and honestly, I have serious doubts.
You think grass came from an alien planet or something?
Or has been so extensively selected by humans (intentionally or unintentionally) that it no longer resembles the original wild form. Either way, the world would be a more pleasant place without grass.
Do you seriously think that lawns are the only grasses?
Do you live in a desert or something?
Grass grows in the wild everywhere. Have you never every in your life been in a field or a forrest or even outside a city or a suburb?
I live in the rainforest. There is zero grass here except in the places that have been disturbed by humans.
Okay fair enough. But it’s different elsewhere.
Grass fields are extremely natural here. There is often also grass under the trees but that depends on the types of trees and how dense they are.