Please don't boost #aislop !

This slop graphic went #viral in my timeline on Mastodon. Commentators found the source in a FB slop page, and biologists in the comments tell the facts. Nevertheless, people burst into enthusiasm, so little do they know about nature. #AISlop sites on big platforms gather about 250k followers.

I did a fact-check about real snails.
You can read it here: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233

#snail #snails #animalsave #NatureMatchCuts #biodiversity #reconnectWithNature #blog

@NatureMC 💯 on the no ai slop recommendation, but are there really a significant amount of people on fb now advocating saving the snails!?

My whole gardening and permaculture feeds are always full of people wanting them gone.

My garden crows lift them up and drop them on the concrete with a satisfying crunch, so they're easier to snack on and I was always thinking that's normal and good behavior...

Am I the baddie?

🤯🤯🤯

@iwein Well, as you can read in my article, most of the land snails are important for the soil food chain and soil health, and gardeners should differ between species. I am surprised that permaculture experts could know so little about this?

I don't know if you are a baddie but for your crows it's natural behaviour. Natural enemies can be garden helpers against the damaging species.
Are you a crow? 😉

Spoken from France, where people still eat Helix pomatia: Even here these snails are under

@iwein protection: you can collect only bigger sizes and during a fixed time. You see: Homo sapiens isn't a crow yet. 😎

For the amount on FB: If you are there, your algorithms may be adapted. I'm not on FB and use a completely dead account for research only. So I don't see recommendations. But the main sites I found as origin of the crap, have about 250k followers each. And their comments are full of hearts and aww. Probably also AI-fake-accounts. But I'm not paid enough to research this.

@iwein And *yes*, everywhere in the world are people being interested in more #respect for living beings and #nature. They try to shift their perspective from #anthropocentrism and human hubris to #reciprocity.
I warmly recommend to read Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass as an intro into a different way of thinking.
And even exams for professional gardeners e.g. in Germany, don't speak about pests or weeds anymore. Times are changing slowly.

#bookstodon #natureRights #indigenous

@NatureMC Thank you for the very boostable thread on this. Here's a nice sunset over the food forest for you.