I agree that taste to humans is an unimportant character for most animals, and that some plants and animals derive an advantage from tasting bad to predators.posted by grouse at 2:09 AM on June 18, 2007 Whoa, it is pretty crazy to think that, say, a field of corn is not just a whole bunch of individual corn plants, but rather families of corn plants, living together in one field, vying for resource