>> Now you're asking relevant questions.
>>
>> To the laboratory! Let us all eat fungi! For science!!
>
> Those questions were actually intended to be purely rhetoric. I'd have
> expected the answer to the first one to be common knowledge, and the
> answer to the second to be easily deductible from that.
>
> Okay, let's add two other questions:
>
> Are lay people warned to...
>
> a) not eat self-collected fungi that have a certain well-known look, or
> b) not eat /any/ self-collected fungi unless they're /absolutely/ sure
> of what they are?
>
> Is this because...
>
> a) the toxic species of fungi are so few that they can easily be
> described and remembered, or
> b) the toxic species of fungi are too many to be easily described or
> remembered?

How about

c) Most of the toxic species have no known antidote and are usually 
very, very fatal.

People are also advised to drive at 30 MPH in areas where people live, 
even if there are no people there.

Alternatively,

d) Most fungi actually look pretty similar to each other, and you need 
specialist equipment to tell them apart.

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