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can live on [...] soil nutrients

Except they don't. Carnivorous plants evolved in soils that are poor in nitrates and/or phosphates, so they get them from their preys.

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And so do many humans. What's your point?

I think the point is that carnivorous plants are the closest species to humans in the animal kingdom.

Are you saying carnivorous plants are in the animal kingdom?

Why stop at this? Just live off nutrients in powder and pill form.

Would if I could but this damn stomach needs to have shit in it

Tried this. Not insignificant amount of powder ends up in your lungs.

Venus fly traps know what they look like. They could either reject the image and have to fight that fight for their whole lives, or embrace it and take the title as the most metal plants in the world.

Fun fact: The fly trap closing is one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom.

I could perform photosynthesis.

But what if I don't want to?