XPost: alt.drugs.mushrooms, alt.drugs.psychedelics   
   From: ByRequestOnly@cyber-rights.net   
      
   > >Harvesting a mushroom leaves the mycelium intact and   
   > >therefore   
   > >the harvest  harms the organism no more than picking an apple harms the   
   > >tree....   
   >   
   > But people in Japan (and elsewhere)  pick Matsutake before it spores and   
   perhaps   
   > this is why Matsutake is now so hard to find in Japan.   No organism lives   
   > forever, for us to keep having mushrooms there will need to be some   
   > reproduction.   
      
   Picking a mushroom  DOES NOT harm the parent plant, the mycelium...   
      
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