IF DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION HAS TAUGHT US ANYTHING, IT'S THAT PLANTS EXISTED LONG BEFORE ANIMALS. 
THEY MUST HAVE RELIED UPON THE WIND AND WATER TO SPREAD THEIR SEEDS, HOPEFULLY ENSURING THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR SPECIES.
SO, OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS, THROUGH HIT AND MISS 'EXPERIMENTATION', SOME PLANTS DEVELOPED CLEVER WAYS OF SPREADING THEIR SEEDS FURTHER: SHAPING THEIR SEED-PODS LIKE PARACHUTES FOR FURTHER FREE-FALL OR LIKE BOATS FOR FLOATING ON WATER.
THEIR MAIN FAILING THOUGH, I SUPPOSE, WAS THAT ALMOST ALL OF THEM WERE TETHERED TO THE SPOT, AND THUS OVER MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS, ANIMALS DEVELOPED.
THIS WAS EVOLUTION AT WORK: A PAINFULLY SLOW AND TEDIOUSLY GRADUAL PROCESS. 

IN REACTION TO ANIMALS, (THESE WACKY NEW 'SEED DISTRIBUTION UNITS'), PLANTS DEVELOPED NEW TRICKS TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR SPECIES: THERE WAS NO POINT IN FLOWERS HAVING BRIGHTLY COLOURED PETALS OR DELICIOUSLY FLAVOURED NECTAR BEFORE INSECTS WERE AROUND. TRUE OR FALSE?

LATER, AS THE ANIMALS GREW LARGER, PLANTS DEVELOPED FRUITS AND NUTS TO ATTRACT THEM. 
AGAIN, WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE POINT OF SAY, AN AVOCADO TREE, HAVING SUCH LARGE FRUITS, BEFORE THERE WERE ANIMALS BIG ENOUGH TO EAT IT WHOLE AND CART THE PIP OFF TO SOME OTHER AREA, AND CRAP IT OUT?

HOW MANY SPECIES OF PLANT HAVE BEEN LOST BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO DEVELOP GOOD ENOUGH ADVERTISING AND DISTRIBUTION?
IF WE COULD VIEW A LEAGUE TABLE FOR THE LAST BILLION YEARS,
WHAT PLANTS WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY NEAR THE TOP?
PROBABLY NOTHING BUT THE SIMPLEST, THAT GOT IT RIGHT FIRST TIME: ALGAE; KELP; GRASS AND MOSS?

OTHERWISE THE TABLE WOULD HAVE CHANGED CONTINUALLY, AS CLEVER NEW TRICKS WERE DEVELOPED:

IN THE SHORT TIME MAN HAS BEEN AROUND, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN PLENTY OF NEW ENTRIES: WHAT WERE THE CHANCES FOR FRUITS LIKE AVOCADOS, THAT WERE ONLY EVER PLUCKED BY RELATIVELY FEW ANIMALS BEFORE MAN TOOK A LIKING TO THEM AND STARTED PLANTING THEIR SEEDS IN NEAT ROWS? NOW THEY ARE GROWN WORLD-WIDE AND WILL NEVER FADE FROM THE SECOND DIVISION.

THE SAME IS TRUE FOR POTATOES, WHEAT AND RICE THAT HAVE BEEN  FARMED AND DISTRIBUTED EVERYWHERE SINCE BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY AND HAVE ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS PERMANENT OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMIERE DIVISION.

BUT WHAT OF THE NEWEST ENTRIES SINCE CIVILIZATION CHANGED THE WORLD? IF THIS LINE OF THINKING IS CORRECT, WHICH PLANTS ARE USURPING THE CHAMPIONS BY DEVELOPING NEW TRICKS TO MAKE THEMSELVES MORE ATTRACTIVE TO MAN? 

WHAT PLANTS ARE MASS PRODUCED AND DEMAND STILL OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY? WHAT PLANTS ARE FOUGHT OVER BECAUSE THEY'RE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN GOLD? WHAT PLANTS HAVE MADE THEMSELVES SO DAMN ATTRACTIVE THAT SOME PEOPLE WILL PUT THEIR CONSUMPTION ABOVE FOOD?

I THINK WE KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.

PERSONALLY, I BLAME THE PLANTS

ANDY SPARROW 

WHAT DO YOU THINK? PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING BELOW: IT'LL ONLY TAKE A SECOND. 

IS THIS BOLLOCKS OR A REASONABLY LOGICAL IDEA?