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Radek_Of_Boktor t1_jd8g687 wrote

Reply to comment by rippletroopers in We need urban food forests in Pittsburgh by fadedrosebud

Ah, I hadn't thought about that. That's a shame.

I actually didn't know anything about bio accumulation until I was reading about it further in this thread, but in my head I had only applied it to plants.

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rippletroopers t1_jd8h4dk wrote

Unfortunately grazers are worse than plants, and predators are worse than grazers. Every time you go up a rung on the food chain it gets worse and worse. It’s yet another reason that the deer population is as outrageously out of control as it is.

Fruit from plants is kinda the only safe thing if you’re growing it in unsafe soil.

It’s tragic what a century of industry has done to the ecology in this region.

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