>>11661321You are right, I mentioned only one of the two major constituents of a tree. I don't think that would make me retarded, saying something that is obviously entirely untrue with even the most cursory search or logical deduction would make me retarded.
If no bacteria could digest lignin then there would be shit loads of dead trees piling up with nothing to break them down like what happened with the massive coal deposits created millions of years ago.
The first result for "bacteria lignin" was a paper detailing every single reason you are wrong.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5812493/ 
