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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.

  Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way.

  Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To put it simply, that slug basically absorb and keep the chloroplast in their own body and let it continue to photosynthesis, hence stealing the ability of the plant they feed, while in your example we basically digest it whole, leaving none of the chloroplast cell to photosynthesis.

    That’s a huge difference between this two organism, kinda silly to bring it up as an example, no? And technically, it’s still the salad that does the photosynthesis in your example. You do know what’s up, so not anti-science but trolling? Sealioning? Idk. But overall silly.

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