Elemental Plants

[Kotlol]

Honestly I really don't get this eternal apprehension over letting botany make some chemicals in their plants. Sure they can get a lot of them if they do so, but it's a bunch of work. You know what else is a bunch of work? Making a metric fuckton of chems in science.
So what if the rafflesia can smoke the acid or whatever botanists make? You know who else can smoke acid in all sorts of places on the station? Science.

Like any mass production of chemicals with a recipe that you could make in botany you could just do in science too? And maybe in a 1.5 hour shift you might get slightly more via botany in the end, but it's not like 100 000 000 units of acid or something are that much different from 10 000 000 units of acid that research could have made and sprayed at everyone with less effort and time consumed.

I think it has to do with Security already having to deal with acid bombing scientists.. now you got an acid bombing botanist.. with an acid bombing rancher...

Remember whatever you give Botany, you give the RANCHER too.

The difference between botany and science hiding acid is simple.
Botany can make the food or eggs to be filled with it.. making it the perfect tool.
Thus only the detective with goggles can scan those bastards and learn the compesition..

Also the raffelsia is also a prime example of "endless gas bombing" possibilty.
The problem isn't the fact we don't think botany deserves it... but if botany can do things without science, their interaction plummets...
Also let's just say Botany is suppose to be a "newbie friendly class" and if your botanist friend is cooking up deadly poisons next to you... you don't have a gas mask from the start to deal with it...