cm0002@lemdro.id to Funny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 20 hours agoExplaining the importance of bees to an Americanlemmy.mlimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down116
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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·20 hours agoI’m confused. Why cows would get extinct, but the chicken eggs for the bread will still exist?
minus-squarenervousnerd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·19 hours agoUmm most white bread does not usually contain eggs; usually flour, water, yeast, oil, and salt. Wheat is apparently self pollinating.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoIf it has a yellow outside (like the one on the photo), it has eggs. Also, that “oil” is bee pollinated too.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·18 hours agoThe standard burger bun is brioche (not very nice brioche, granted, but they still call it that)
minus-squareBC_viper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-219 hours agoBees no longer pollinating the cows food? I’m assuming they think cows eat only things that are pollinated, and not grass which is propagated by roots.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 hours agoThe only cow food I know that needs insect is clover and alfalfa. Grass, wheat and even soybeans do OK without.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-219 hours agoAlso the wheat? The shoots might be fine but it wouldn’t produce grains. EDIT: Wheat is wind pollinated.
I’m confused. Why cows would get extinct, but the chicken eggs for the bread will still exist?
Umm most white bread does not usually contain eggs; usually flour, water, yeast, oil, and salt. Wheat is apparently self pollinating.
If it has a yellow outside (like the one on the photo), it has eggs.
Also, that “oil” is bee pollinated too.
The standard burger bun is brioche (not very nice brioche, granted, but they still call it that)
Bees no longer pollinating the cows food? I’m assuming they think cows eat only things that are pollinated, and not grass which is propagated by roots.
The only cow food I know that needs insect is clover and alfalfa. Grass, wheat and even soybeans do OK without.
Also the wheat? The shoots might be fine but it wouldn’t produce grains.
EDIT: Wheat is wind pollinated.