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== Tabletop games ==
* The 1st Edition ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons|Dungeon Master's Guide]]'' recommended that DMs incorporate some made-up variety of vegetation or prey into their campaign worlds, that can generate lots of easy food and thus make the abundance of big predatory monsters a bit less implausible.
* Many inhabitants of the [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Imperium of Man]] subsist on grox, an aggressive breed of reptile which has replaced cattle.
* In the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game, parts of the viridia plant can be used for everything from flour to fabric to lumber to oil to ''naturally-grown canoes''. Justified by [[A Wizard Did It]].
 
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* In Colonial America, farmers claimed they used "every part of the pig but the squeal".
** In another part of the world, that is what the Chinese are doing right now: For every single part of a pig there is at least one Chinese dish out there using it.
* The miracle tree [[wikipedia:Moringa oleifera|(Moringa oleifera)]] is an awesome example of this. Originally from Southeast Asia, they are now used in many subtropical parts of the world to help combat malnutrition. Immature green pods of the tree are said to have a kind of green bean with a hint of asparagus taste, its seeds are roasted like peas or nuts, the flowers taste like mushrooms, and the roots can be shaved into a horseradish-like condiment.
** According to [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/12/19/111219fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all/ this] article: Moringas are among the world’s most nutritious plants. Their leaves can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into baby formula. They contain four times the calcium of milk, three times the potassium of bananas, four times the Vitamin A of carrots, seven times the Vitamin C of oranges, and about half again the protein of soybeans. The seeds can be pressed for an unsaturated fat like olive oil or crushed into a powder that purifies water(!): its electrolytes attract impurities and precipitate them out of the fluid. Best of all, Moringas are fast-growing and extremely drought-tolerant.
* Hemp can be used for food (the seeds), medicine (against aczema and inflammation), as rope, for fabric for clothing, sacks and sails, as building material, as jewelry, it can be made into paper and plastic, and it can be used for fuel, weed control and water purification. And yes, it has that other use too.
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