0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CruncherDefi 19 Dec 2023 freebie \ parent \ on: Name One Conspiracy Theory You Believe and One You Don't history
If that would be the case, this logic would also apply to meat. Animals/meat do not want to be 'eaten'. So they also would deploy those defensive strategies.
Mutations are random and blind. There is no higher-level planning like "I develop inflammatory inducing stuff so I won't get eaten'. If crops are planted/tended by humans there is no evolutionary pressure to develop poisonous response.