Maybe the guy tried to eat the bean sprouts, didn't chew quite enough and then they mysteriously grew just as he tried to swallow, choking him? That's about the only ways I can see bean sprouts killing anyone. Or maybe they suddenly produced a lot more of that poisonous chemical beans have?
It's a really weird choice though to have all these domesticated plants suddenly rebel, with whom we have been messing with for thousands of years and who at least kind of profit from being reproduced by us. In particular squashes -- like I've read somewhere pumpkins, squash etc. would have gone extinct if humans hadn't cultivated them for containers and later food, because the large animals who were okay with eating huge toxic vegetables and distribute them naturally all went extinct or something, just like avocados who needed the giant sloths or something. So really the squash ought to be on our side while some remnant of some primal forest murders the nearby village in belated revenge for habit destruction that favored the non-native squash...
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Date: 2021-05-07 09:42 pm (UTC)It's a really weird choice though to have all these domesticated plants suddenly rebel, with whom we have been messing with for thousands of years and who at least kind of profit from being reproduced by us. In particular squashes -- like I've read somewhere pumpkins, squash etc. would have gone extinct if humans hadn't cultivated them for containers and later food, because the large animals who were okay with eating huge toxic vegetables and distribute them naturally all went extinct or something, just like avocados who needed the giant sloths or something. So really the squash ought to be on our side while some remnant of some primal forest murders the nearby village in belated revenge for habit destruction that favored the non-native squash...