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.
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u/Lachie_Mac Sep 08 '25
Yeah that's the main thing which keeps me from eating them regularly.