They are used in moderation, in order to try to preserve their lack of supply.

Deforestation and over-harvesting are PRIME causes of truffle expense

Prime reason why truffles are so expensive

They benefit dishes through the taste

Truffles give off sex hormone to lure pigs, while dogs need to be more trained to hunt truffles.

Truffles benefit their host tree so much that they become the sole growth near that tree.

18th and 19th century is when their popularity starting booming

They have been around for a long time, which means they have been involved in many dishes for centuries.

Truffle trees are selected carefully and they must be taken care of in a specific ay in order to preserve the truffle's flavor/aroma. There is no room to make mistakes in the truffle cultivating business.

A main goal was to make truffle cultivation more accessible, sustainable, and proactive.

Truffles were directly seen as a symbol of money and power. This is their origins.

This is interesting to me because this is the description of a chef who knows what he's talking about. That's so many different aromas that he's comparing the truffle to. Maybe this is because truffle's are a uniting force in general among foods??

Truffles were a perfect fit into the already existing market of wild mushrooms to eat.

Truffles benefit the environment completely. They give people a living, help other plants/species, and achieve their goal of spreading their spores.

Truffles make people greedy. Once they have a truffle in their possession, they use it sparingly. Why is this? Maybe money is the only reason why truffle hunters sell their prized possessions to the public.

The main factor that's on people's minds about a truffle is it's price/value.

Humans are being also controlled and lured in by truffles, ultimately making truffles have complete power.

Technically, suppliers and truffles are also working in partnerships by benefiting off of one another. Suppliers obtain the truffles and disperse its spores, truffles lead to money growth for suppliers.

How come this is such a small part of their argument to consume and buy truffles? They know only a select few really care about the health benefits, most people just want truffle for the status boost (the health benefit is a side note).

KEY IDEA: This is a prime way that companies market truffles. "...if you're really looking to flex..." explains that truffles are directly used to show off wealth. People play them off as a delicacy and a yummy food, yet in reality people just want more power and clout from truffles.

use this

for - quote - Michael Levin - what is a good story? - the question is: Why didn't that biochemical story get you to this (new) discovery? - adjacency - good models - predictive power - good story - a good model is a good language - new words frame the world in new ways, - it allows us to divide reality in different ways - and can lead us to look in places we otherwise might now - and that can lead to new observations

for - adjacency - quote - inherent sacred - Chinese saying - (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture - building a regenerative world - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - rekindling the sacred in an age of crisis - chinese meme

adjacency - between - Chinese saying - (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture - building a regenerative world - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - rekindling the sacred in an age of crisis - chinese meme - adjacency relationship - This ancient Chinese philosophy saying is a good summary of a key claim of the Stop Reset Go open source Deep Humanity praxis, namely - we are all sacred but we forget that as we become enculturated - The Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) and the tree metaphor depicts diagrammatically how we can find a way to return to the sacred later in life - even though we have had it obscured - The existential crisis requires awakening the sleeping giant of the billions of people who no longer have a living experience of the sacred - This strategy is like moving from the branches of the tree of great diversity back to the common trunk of the sacred that supports all this diversity, - using the BEing journey as the strategic tool to bring back wonder, awe and a living experience of the sacred

for - quote - chain reaction - why good projects fail - (see below)

• Although many projects and ideas share Elinor Ostrom's personal, cooperative and Earth-helping significance,
  • they lack the chain reaction that keeps them going.
• On the contrary, this flame is extinguished by
  • the direct action (fakes), or
  • indirect action (ignoring or taking our attention elsewhere)
• of the mainstream media that in a certain sense has lost that "code of ethics" of journalism that upheld values; such as
  • truthfulness,
  • independence,
  • objectivity,
  • fairness,
  • accuracy,
  • respect for others,
  • public accountability...

• for: good explanation: empiricism, empiricism - knowledge gap, quote, quote - Dan Robinson, quote - philosophy, quote - empiricism - knowledge gap, Critique of Pure Reason - goal 1 - address empiricism and knowledge gap

• good explanation : empiricism - knowledge gap

• quote

  • on the traditional empiricist account
    • we do not have direct access to the facts of the external world
    • that is we do not experience externality directly but only MEDIATELY, not immediately but MEDIATELY
      • because between us and the external world are those what do you call them oh yes, sense organs
    • and so the question is how faithfully they report what is going on out there
    • To raise the question how faithful is the sensory report of the external world
      • is to assume that you have some reliable non-sensory way of answering that question
    • That's the box you can't get out of and so there is always this gap between
      • reality as it might possibly be known by some non-human creature and
      • reality as empirically sampled by the senses
        • whose limitations and distortions are very well known
          • but not perfectly classified or categorized or or measured

• Comment

  • Robinson contextualizes the empiricist project and gap thereof, as one of the 4 goals of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
  • Robinson informally calls this the "Locke" problem, after one of the founders of the Empiricist school, John Locke.
  • Robinson also alludes to a Thomas Reed approach to realism that contends that we don't experience reality MEDIATELY, but IMMEDIATELY, thereby eliminating the gap problem altogether.
  • It's interesting to see how modern biology views the empericist's knowledge gap, especially form the perspective of the Umwelt and Sensory Ecology