>>2524202There were wild nettles all around when I was a kid. Everyone knew you could eat nettles and lots of people liked them. Everyone in my town would go cook with the nettles, many of whom didn't even know the term "foraging" it was just normal, right.
Jump to now, I literally haven't seen wild nettles in my within 100 miles of my town in 10 years.
>The more people who want to exploit the land for it's resources means they respect it more.1 that's retarded, if you respected it you would leave it the fuck alone,
2 You have no idea how fragile wild ecosystems really are. If there was just 10x as many people into harvesting the shit you harvest there would be none left for you to have, and it would wreck havock on the wildlife.
Most crops that were susistance staples to the native Americans are still critically endangered to this day they were so over harvested.
3 those people should eat food from Walmart, those people should never leave their pods, because that's the only way people like us can go out and have some solitude and mushrooms to pick.
There's 2 acres of land in america for every American citizen, 2 acres is hardly anything. If everyone was outdoorsy, and into foraging, it would basically be the city.
This is why gatekeeping is good. And it's typical redditor peabrain thinking to believe that actually the death of my culture at the hands of the masses is good actually.
