Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
Saying that ancient plants are less nutritious than modern plants is a far different claim than this one in ways that are relevant to this discussion:
a plant in nature has no reason to be nutritive.
A plant in nature has no reason to be nutritive enough to sustain a population of animals/humans. Surely you realize that every time you eat a fruit, vegetable, berry, nut, etc., you are precluding a potential plant. To say that plants naturally just evolved to feed us is not only ridiculously optimistic but also a huge insult to our ancestors thousands of years ago who developed agriculture.