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I appreciate the intent here, but overall, I don't think it helps with the specific phrasing here.

Some mushrooms contain toxins, in fact, depending on what specific mushroom and what specific toxin it contains it can be cooked out in some cases. In fact, it is common practice to not cover wild mushrooms while cooking as the process of cooking them allows them to evaporate and leave during the process of cooking.

Some mushrooms are differentiated based on 'tasting' a small bit of it--in certain safe cases. But this is part of investigating and trying to find out what you are dealing with. This is one or the practices used to differentiate mushrooms taxonomically--again in some specific and known cases.

Saying "You cannot taste mushroom toxins" and that "they taste just like any other mushroom" assumes you have tasted every mushroom and have some sense of what that might taste like--it's not something that can be taken seriously.

What damage is done when you injest a 'poisonous mushroom' depends on the toxin and the amount, it is utterly dependent on what specific toxin is involved, how much was injested and the specifics of the person who has injested it. Even choice edible mushrooms may cause gastrointestinal distress to somebody who has an innate allergy or is predisposed to such sensitivity. Some mushrooms contain componensts that don't mix well with alcohol for instance--so the entirety of the meal eaten in the evening should be taken into account when preparing wild edible mushrooms.

In the case of the "Death Cap" mushroom, the consequences are well known, severe and devastating. No need to make the toxicity somehow mysterious or exotic--it's well understood.

Again, if you are curious and want to understand more start here: https://namyco.org/

No need to continue spreading vague terminology or half-reasoned guesses.

Or if you plan to feed them to anyone else, ICE agent perhaps? Don't want people accidently murdering feds.

Just cook a beef wellington and blame the Asian grocer. At least one women thought it would work.

Not likely, all the victims were migrants who had a practice of forraging where they grew up natively. I've read about cases like this across the country on either coast of the US.

However, there seems to be a spike, either due to the rains in California or perhaps another reason--not going to go as far as plaming 'AI' identification. I certainly wouldn't trust "AI" to do that job.

The California health department is providing video and documentation in order to help people identify the "Death Cap" mushroom in multiple languages:

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/EHIB/Pages/EIS/Poisonous-Mushrooms.aspx

here's the thing: the poison mushrooms are also delicious

I prefer the ones that show me god.

And some transport you to parallel dimensions to meet magical imps. Fungi are extremely cool organisms.

This is also kind of true of plants in the nightshade family like potatoes and tomatoes where they can be pretty poisonous if you eat the wrong parts, we just know which parts we can eat. We also don't have cultural stigma against eating potatoes so more people know about them. Knowledge is power!

Also, tobacco and chile peppers are in the nightshade family as well, but the "poisonous" chemical in those is slightly altered in each case to make nicotine and capsaisin respectfully. Neat!

It's a yummy death mushroom!

Real talk! I studied mycology, and the only culinary mushroom I feel comfortable identifying is morels.

Plus they taste horrible and have weird texture. Just don’t even go there.

Ate it off the ground most likely.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, probably.

Probably no one. Kid probably found it and parents didn't know or couldn't stop some of it from getting into the kid. Children at that age are on a mission to speed run life.

In my country we even avoid giving mushrooms we know are safe, nearly impossible to harvest incorrectly, to children under 4 because they may be hard on the digestive system.

Foraging for mushrooms is one of those activities where the risks far outweigh the rewards, at least to me.

I forage mushrooms. I think there is both a healthy fear and an overreaction to how dangerous it really is. A novice can forage for something like chicken of the woods because it is an obvious species that has no deadly lookalikes. However there are mushrooms even I still avoid despite knowing exactly what they are because they have poisonous lookalikes.

What's really surprising is people seem to think foraging plants to be safer despite there being plants with edible lookalikes like poison hemlock that can kill in minutes.

In the end, a little bit of practice, focus, and understanding safety, mushroom foraging, and plant foraging, is actually much less dangerous than one would imagine. Still, if you don't know what you are doing you should never eat a mushroom or plant that you aren't 100% certain is what it is. Never munch on a hunch.