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To be fair, we were the ones that selectively bred fruits (and vegetables!) to be so sugar-rich that zoos can't even feed them to some of their animals that traditionally only eat fruit.

If this guy is correct, this would be no different than if we found some other toxic substance in our fruit. The point is that it's toxic and it's bad for us, and decisions would need to be made to account for that.

>but let people make their own decisions about what they put in their bodies.

Again, if this guy is correct, how would this be any different than tobacco? We don't let young people decide to put tobacco or booze in their bodies because science has shown they're not old enough to make that decision well.



* To be fair, we were the ones that selectively bred fruits (and vegetables!) to be so sugar-rich that zoos can't even feed them to some of their animals that traditionally only eat fruit.*

I've never heard of this. Got a source?



Much appreciated.


Yeah, the selectively-bred fruit is a very interesting point.




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