• xep@discuss.online
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    The plants want the fruit to be eaten by a specific animal. Human beings do not have any such symbiotic relationship with any plant I know of. You’d get very sick, for example, if you ate a Cassowary Plum.

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      The power of science offers humans the ability to eat many things that were not originally designed to be eaten by us.