I am a serial prop lifter and I will never stop.
Don’t tell anyone but I once took a seed of a palm tree off the ground in public park and planted it. It’s been growing in a pot for a couple of years now.
I told everyone and they did the same. I think you just sparked a revolution.
It feels like magic yet it is entirely natural
If you didn’t want me to do it you shouldn’t have given it such a cool name.
Another idea is to build communities to propagate plants (regardless how they were acquired) and share them (nearly) free of charge.
Stripping them off plants, yeah thats just damaging the plant itself and is shitty behaviour.
Off the ground? Now its crossing from damage into being pedantic about stuff that would go into a mulcher.
And I highly doubt that those with the patience and skill to propogate make up any significant margin whatsoever.
That’s the same sort of business owners who would throw away uneaten food in restaurants and not allow employees to take it home.
so major ones
That’s different because it’s a liability thing. Some asshole would sue over bad food which means nobody gets the food.
They could donate the food to a food bank and be completely shielded from liability by Good Samaritan Act
They don’t want to because it means that poor people can eat for free (gasp) which might slightly impact the restaurant industry and indirectly reduce their profit margin by 0.1%
That’s the excuse, yes
the alternative is the trash that will never sue you ever.
Americans would rather chuck perfectly good food into a dumpster than entertain the possibility of summoning the collective fucking will to fix a VERY straightforward problem. The idea that they could just legislate some reasonable liability protections and make sure edible food gets to hungry people apparently requires a level of imagination and civic competence beyond anyone’s wildest dream. So much easier to blame “some asshole” for creating what is surely an insurmountable legal paradox. The food rots, needy people go hungry, and the US gets to pretend the problem is some unavoidable fact of life rather than admit they just couldn’t be arsed to try.
Most stabilized countries have laws in place for food and protections for donations.
I’m guessing there’s rules behind this one but in the US:
The Food Donation Improvement Act: This act expands those protections. It allows qualified businesses (like restaurants, supermarkets, and schools) to donate food directly to individuals in need rather than having to route it through a registered 501©(3) nonprofit intermediary. It also allows nonprofits to charge a nominal “Good Samaritan” fee just to cover the logistics and handling costs of distributing the food.
I don’t know the specifics of that one though.
Easier & cheaper to just throw it away, so most businesses probably don’t bother. We would need to mandate and/or subsidize this behavior if we wanted people to actually do it.
Because the US is only a small handful of people with the same worldview…
You sure do always seem to post the same responses
? I don’t think that is the case. My fault for posting. Bye
Maybe only one of you has internet access and is frantically posting across media platforms.
Couldn’t you just sign a waiver to say you accept the risks?
unfortunately not really, there is a limit to how much liability you can waive and it’s not knowable before it’s tried in court.
In my limited experience (I found a succulent leaf on the street) the only skill one would need is to remind themselves to water it, like once a week maybe. All you have to do is drop it into a pot with some soil and water it every now and then. Maybe some succulents are more finicky though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*Also, it’s pretty cool to watch. Like the original leaf slowly shrinks and dries out as the new leaves are formed.
I have succulents on my balcony that outgrow their pots. I break off chunks long enough to have a few root-hairs attached and drop them into the scruffy area at the side of the building. They can’t really root themselves there unless we get a bunch of rain, but I’ve seen a few people take one and it always makes me happy.
Funny enough though if they’re snipping a cutting off of the plant to propagate, the plant must be healthy enough to purchase…
I’m pretty sure the store the original post was from put that up to get people to propagate iirc
starts fucking in the garden center
gives birth in the garden center
takes birth in the garden center
Plucking is wrong anywhere. Taking fallen off props at an independent nursery? Only of theyre cool with it. Big box store? Have at it
This is gardening manifest!
Take your hand off my stamen!
Let me guess buying a plant, taking it home, taking a few clippings once it’s healthy and giving them away is also theft like torrents.
In some cases, it can be. Certain varieties are protected by intellectual property law and whoever owns the rights to it (probably Monsanto, tbh) can sue you if you propagate and distribute unauthorized copies.
What a shitty, fucked up world we live in…
It’s almost like AI, wrt responsibility. Some seeds blow over to another farmer’s field and start to grow, suddenly that farmer can have a ton of problems, through no fault of his own.
Like everything, it depends upon the country and the IP protection sought. Even in the U.S. with the most stupid IP laws, the standard PVP (plant variety protection) has what is called breeders rights. This allows a breeder or researcher to use the genetics for research or development of other products. In most countries around the world this is the only type of IP available.
In the U.S. every so often a dickhead gets a utility patent on a variety or inbred. This has fallen out of practice for any variety sold internationally as the patent is not respected once the plants cross the border. Instead they patent GMO or mutagenic traits. Since these can be inventions, they are usually protected internationally.
What is this about now?
This was a communication teacher who demonstrated to her students how you can get a bunch of people to start thinking about anything by having enough crashouts over it
No one was thinking about pomegranates until she screamed NO POMEGRANATES and now everyone’s gonna want to bring them to school because of that
I suspect it might be about pomegranates. But I’m not entirely certain.
I’ll bet my next paycheck that this store also sells “root starter”.
Someone
probablydefinitely put this up as reverse psychology.And you potted plant? Are you waiting to receive my succulent leaf?
