When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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1. Lots of vegetables originate from one specific area where it was wild then domesticated. Example: potato, you are only ever going to find wild potato in South America.
2. Vegetables through domestication have been improved in size and taste. If you do find a wild one it will be much smaller and look different
3. Many plants that produce fruits and vegetables have a life cycle where for the vast majority of the year the part we eat isn’t present. So 11 months out of the year even if you knew what a wild version of vegetable X looked like it wouldn’t be present even if the plant was
4. Animals. Animals eat a lot of berries, fruits, pods, seeds, stems, and often eat them before they are properly ripe – so while the plant is there the vegetable part or fruit is not.
5. Hidden. If you have ever picked from a garden you often have to look hard for the items. They are often low to the ground and behind leaves, or sometimes underground. If I planted a domestic pea plant right next to a path with other leafy plants (and somehow kept animals from eating them) I’m betting no human walking by would even notice the pods when they developed. Would you even think to look underground like in the case of potatoes, turnips, and the like!
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