Incidentally, we are the only species on the planet that will sit there with our mouth burning from a jalapeño and wonder, “how can we make this hotter?”
Great book.
Regarding another thread, if plants could chose their characteristics I would imagine we'd see anti-veg memes much like we see anti-meat memes. While there are carnivores out there as a lifestyle, it's nothing compared to what over a century of SDA has brought to veganism.
We have only been doing industrial scale agriculture for about two hundred years though, and we’ve been farming for at least eleven thousand years.
There's also a thing about jackfruit and elephants? Aside from tool users they're the primary consumer, and they'll grab one while they're on the march and eat it when it's break time.