It isn’t really useful to describe food we get from plants as ‘plant shit’ - plants aren’t generally trying to excrete the bits that we eat - it’s most commonly one of the following:
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[li]Food they are making for their own use later (e.g. starches and sugars stored in tubers)[/li][li]Food they are making for their offspring to use (e.g. starches, fats, proteins stored in nuts.[/li][li]Food they are still actively consuming (the nutritional content of leaves, stems, etc)[/li][li]Food created as a bribe for animals, in exchange for a service (nectar, sugars in fruits, etc).[/li][/ul]
In none of these cases, is the plant ‘shitting food’.
People aren’t generally trying to excrete the bits they eat, they just seem obligated to do it.
Of course they are. Organisms excrete and defecate on purpose, and for a purpose.
The plant stuff we eat is (in pretty much every case I can think of*) not *excreted *or *defecated *by plants.
*A case could perhaps be made for plant products such as resins that are exuded by the plant and scraped off by humans.
I mean, unless you really want to define the word ‘shit’ as a general purpose verb to replace ‘put’ - i.e. “I’m shitting some money into my savings account now”, or “Could you shit the car into the garage please?”
Wow nobody mentioned fiber?
Fiber is nature’s draino. It clears out your tubes and helps keep your digestion on track. Fiber is mostly contained in vegetables and high in certain other foods like yams and peas. The more vegetables you eat, the more fiber comes out as poop.
I had an issue years ago and the doctor said to get more fiber. I looked up all the foods that were full of fiber, realized I hate most of them, and started a fiber pill regimen. The first time, I took two and they clumped together like a magic 8 ball. Doc, I said, now my poop is coming out like rocks, what happened? He said, take more. Your poop should come out easily and float. If it sinks, you aren’t taking enough fiber and need more. I upped to 4 tablets a day and then I started having the best poops of my life. I swear, I would tell my friends about what a great poop I had that day. And boy, you feel clean…really, really clean.
it’s really just a matter of perspective what humans are going to call shit.
i.e.
I can’t take any more of your shit.
Straighten up and get your shit together.
For my birthday I got a new shirt and all sorts of other shit.
This is a thread about excrement, not semantics.
I stand corrected. thank you
Don’t shit where you eat. Just don’t.
This is wrong on multiple levels. First of all, plants do not engage in respiration, they engage in photosynthesis. And they don’t excrete CO[sub]2[/sub], they consume it (and produce oxygen.
You’re wrong. Plants engage in both repiration AND photosynthesis.
Talkin shit, huh?
Not today
I consider “shit” to be one of the best words in the English language. Those four letters say something that nothing else does! That word has both a useful literal and figurative meaning:
I haven’t taken a shit in three days.
I’ve taken enough of your shit for three days.
Who would have thought so much could be gleaned from such a simple gross question. I do eat a LOT of vegetables so there you go.