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We get played
(lemm.ee)
Alt Text `An image of a Man holding a large potted plant wearing a long sleeve tan button up shirt and eye glasses. His face has a wide grin but not happy more like "oh crap".
Text: In reality, plants are actually farming us, by giving us oxygen daily, until we all eventually decompose so they can consume us.`
I thought it was fungus and bacteria that consumed us?
decomposers turn organic material from corpses into simpler nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. for example, proteins are broken down into amino acids, which then decompose into ammonium and nitrates. these nutrients are absorbed into soil and consumed by plants
tldr: plants eat corpses after decomposers turn them into nutrients
Makes sense, thanks!