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I don't want to use this idea, because of the implications. So I'll probably discard it.
However, looking at it in textual form, it doesn't actually seem that offensive.
But I think that the Grass-types are just too reptilian for this to register as realistic in my mind--I don't feel like going the extra mile, when I already realized that the way that they reproduce could not merely be explained away as being dioecious. So they will be hatching more from eggs than they are germinating from seeds.
I find the idea personally offensive, yet strangely alluring, since it would solve so many problems.
Somebody may want to use it as inspiration for a story, so I'll share it.
My inner biologist is screaming "THIS A GREAT IDEA, WHY AREN'T YOU USING IT?"
But the problem is that my current society would break down if this were to be done. The writer in me is screaming "THIS IDEA WILL RUIN HALF OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE UP TO THIS POINT, YOU MADMAN"
There would be no reason to put the water treatment plants outside the city, and who knows if grass-types actually "urinate" sugar water when there is an excess of sugar. Does that mean if you feed them lemon juice, that you could get lemonade? This would almost assuredly be an industry in this world. This raises some red flags, that there is a potential for its abuse.
It seriously offends my sensibilities. Grass-types would become walking compost-piles... although that may explain the poison typing for some. Hmm. I'm considering if I should do some kind of compromise, where I use SOME of this idea but not all of it?
Grass-types can eat treated sludge, but raw sewage will make them sick.
Some poison types do eat raw sewage.
See, I know that much of this stems from the fact that animals harbor diseases and microbes that make other animals sick, but not plants. But since reptiles are a type of animal, why would they NOT get sick from ingesting sewage? Ugh. This is hurting my head.
I don't think that I'm going to use this.
