Why does fungus on expired goods make us sick, but not the other edible mushrooms?
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Because they make different poop, in the case of mold.
Edible mold make waste products that won’t hurt us, but dangerous mold make things that are toxic when they eat things.
The mold on blue cheese has been selected over hundreds of years to be both harmless and tasty, and it pushes out other molds when it grows on the cheese we leave for it to snack on. Any random mold spore you could pluck out of the air might be harmless, but might be dangerous.
For fungus it’s similar, but as larger organisms they can make and store toxic compounds on purpose and not just as waste.
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