Teach Mushroom Identification Rather than Preach Abstinence

In mycological text after mycological text, in mushroom poisoning report after mushroom poisoning report we get the advice to use abstinence as the fool proof means of avoiding mushroom poisoning. Many texts, for example, advise against foraging for any Amanitas because one Amanita, Amanita phalloides, represents something like 95% of all mushroom fatalities globally. This…