#but no way are 90% of ppl ok with taking tree fruit. even in public parks and stuff. it's considered stealing | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

beeseverywhen · 2 years ago

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I think we've definitely got to remember regional differences here. I've never been even slightly worried about contamination (here a lot of ppl worry more about contamination in the supermarket food supply chain with pesticides/herbicides rather than out of it) I was taught to avoid food that's low down as its more likely to have had animals peeing on it ect

BUT (and this is a pretty major but) foraging from fruit trees and stuff on land you don't own is technically illegal here (and not just like ppls Gardens, we're talking ppl getting funny about you taking an apple from a overhanging branch on a public footpath when you can see they're all rotting on the ground). It's also illegal to take seaweed if you don't ask the landowner. Obviously nobody is getting prosecuted for taking small amounts to eat but cause its illegal people do see it as like a moral issue??? So while I've always done it it's not something I'd shout about

so far the most baffling response to the graveyard fruit question are people apparently horrified or surprised that anyone would even consider picking any fruit from any tree anywhere that was just out there, not owned by them or not purchased from a store.

breaks my brain. you see a tree or a bush with fruit outside - not even on someone's property, just outside - and you don't take from it? you don't eat the fruit? why? what?

#people have very strange ideas about what owning land means here #people feel very in their rights to have food just rotting in places with public right of way just cause they own the land #pretty much all of our commonland was partitioned so you technically need permission to forage or hunt anything here #I'm always a bit blown away by people living in places where the government respects their right to hunt and gather food #people try and argue its because we're so densly populated and say that there's nowhere left where you could find food #but that's complete bullshit. there's a lot to hunt here but it's all estate land where they keep it for themselves for leisure hunting #or charge ppl money to hunt there. but that's all with the expectation they won't actually be eating the game #they kill it and then just waste it. its disgusting #most ppl are OK with taking blackberries (as in they think it's not stealing lol lots of ppl think it's not clean to take food in the wild)#but no way are 90% of ppl ok with taking tree fruit. even in public parks and stuff. it's considered stealing #which is mad to me but my family just taught me its fine but not to call attention to myself when I'm doing it

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