Talk:Plorts/@comment-26849575-20160215021826/@comment-24434528-20160321173453

The theory I've seen is that plorts are excess mass that slimes give off when they eat so that they don't grow indefinitely. Honestly, I think they are poop in the sense that they are basically waste material that slimes get rid of to stay healthy, but that doesn't mean they're toxic like Earth poops are. You have to understand, animals produce poop because fecal matter is made up of all the stuff an animal's body can't use and needs to get rid of - it's toxins and waste material, useless and poisonous. But, for example, what's waste material to an animal can be highly nutritious food for plants. Conversely, plants produce oxygen as a waste material - oxygen is plant poop in the same sense that plorts are slime poop. Is this making sense?