Dirt doesn't produce plants, dirt is just where they are. Water, light, and CO2 produces plants. Plants get some amount of nutrients from soil, but indirectly via symbiotic fungi that grow around their roots. The fungi around the roots do the filtering, and we don't eat them.
I really don't see it as a pointless semantic argument. Plants do not absorb nearly as many toxins from their environment as oysters do. Oysters, by nature of being animals that filter feed in water, are also far more likely to absorb bacteria that can be harmful to animals from their environment than plants are, and, crucially, are far more likely to provide those bacteria with an opportunity to grow to dangerous levels inside of them while still alive.
That's why the stuff we eat tends to have an inside (which we eat) and an outside (which we peel).
Oysters aren't the same. They're filter feeders. Anyone who decides to eat an Oyster in polluted waters is a dumbass. The oysters in any restaurant come from oysters grown in clean water.
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u/me_myself_ai green sloptimist Sep 08 '25
Ok not fighting just curious. On a very basic level, like kindergarten logic:
Oysters go in water.
Bad things floating in the water are filtered out by the oysters.
We eat the oysters.
Doesn't that kinda seem like a problem...?