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[DRAFT] - Forage and Forget

[The Issue] - The @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Botanical Society has reported a sharp decline in wild herb populations due to over-collection, resulting in a blossoming debate over foraging rules.


[Option 1] - "Help our herbs!" exclaims caffeinated botanist Rose Marie. "I lose sleep over how our plants are nonchalantly uprooted to be gluttonously eaten, greedily sold, or even used by hikers as improvised toilet paper! @@NAME@@ cannot afford losing a native species to extinction, just because it looks appealing to wipe with! The collection of wild flora must be thoroughly regulated. Foragers should abide by collection limits and harvesting bans for vulnerable species to safeguard botanical research and the national interest."

[effect] - citizens who carelessly wipe receive crippling fines


[Option 2] - "Will my daughter need a flower picking permit?" snaps impassioned radio personality Kud Zoos. "And what's next, a lawnmower ban? What a joke! Plenty depend on wild herbs for food security or to supplement their income, and extensive regulation would leave them eating dirt. Even so, that doesn't mean we should completely slash and burn our responsibility to nature. Allow foragers to collect as much as they want, for a small environmental conservation fee."

[effect] - the government protects nature by holding all-you-can-uproot extravaganzas


[Option 3] - "Over-regulation is bad for the economy, but so is extinction," reports Deputy Commerce Minister Allow Vera. "Especially if, say, the exterminated herb has medicinal properties- @@NAME@@ would lose out on any health benefits, and the ability to profit off of it! But honestly, not all weeds are worth protecting, so how about this? Mandate the preservation of economically important and medicinal plants in national botanical gardens and herbaria. That way, even if foragers go wild, the nation still flowers."

[effect] - botanical gardens are shrines to herbal medicine

[DRAFT] - Forage and Forget

[The Issue] - The @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Botanical Society has reported a sharp decline in wild herb populations due to over-collection, resulting in a blossoming debate over foraging rules.


[Option 1] - "Help our herbs!" exclaims caffeinated botanist Rose Marie. "I lose sleep over how our plants are nonchalantly uprooted to be gluttonously eaten, greedily sold, or even used by hikers as improvised toilet paper! @@NAME@@ cannot afford to lose a native species to extinction, just because it looks appealing to wipe with! The collection of wild flora must be thoroughly regulated. Foragers should abide by collection limits and harvesting bans for vulnerable species to safeguard botanical research and the national interest."

[effect] - citizens who carelessly wipe receive crippling fines


[Option 2] - "Will my daughter need a flower picking permit?" snaps impassioned radio personality Kud Zoos. "And what's next, a lawnmower ban? What a joke! Plenty depend on wild herbs for food security or to supplement their income, and extensive regulation would leave them eating dirt. Even so, that doesn't mean we should completely slash and burn our responsibility to nature. Allow foragers to collect as much as they want, for a small environmental conservation fee."

[effect] - the government protects nature by holding all-you-can-uproot extravaganzas


[Option 3] - "Over-regulation is bad for the economy, but so is extinction," reports Deputy Commerce Minister Allow Vera. "Especially if, say, the exterminated herb has medicinal properties- @@NAME@@ would lose out on any health benefits, and the ability to profit off of it! But honestly, not all weeds are worth protecting, so how about this? Let’s identify economically important and medicinal plants then preserve them in national botanical gardens and herbaria. That way, even if foragers go wild, the nation still flowers."

[effect] - botanical gardens are shrines to herbal medicine