• WillyWonksters@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I couldn’t find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of Roundup, so that we would accept the collateral damage.

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      11 months ago

      Dandelions were brought to North America as a food crop. We can eat every part of the plant. They’re an invasive species, but not what I would consider a weed.

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        11 months ago

        Anything can be a weed. All a weed is it a plant growing is the wrong spot in the eyes of a human.

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          11 months ago

          Agreed, but Monsanto would love us to believe all kinds of plants are weeds so we buy their chemicals.

          A field of dandelion flowers is beautiful.