• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    They just didn’t evolve to consume so much sugar.

    Bro, eating oranges puts our tooth enamel in a weakened state. If we were designed, it was by an idiot.

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        15 hours ago

        It’s not the sugar, but the acid that our teeth can’t handle.

        The fact that healthy foods can’t be consumed without a risk of harm is not an intelligent design.

        I mean, even apples (i.e. “Garden of Eden”) can promote the growth of plaque!

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          5 hours ago

          Cane and Abel tells us the gods don’t like vegetable farmers, that want meat

          Meat doesn’t damage your teeth

          Incidentally the damage from sugar is fermentation - it makes carbonic acid (the stuff that makes soda fizzy) which is a weaker acid than citric

          Citrus didn’t make it to Europe quickly - it came from China

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            14 hours ago

            If an all-knowing creator didn’t want humans to eat fruit from a specific tree, he shouldn’t have grown that tree in the only garden he had humans in.

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                5 hours ago

                Oh, right. The obedience only matters if you have to make yourself do it. It doesn’t count if it’s natural and painless and costs you nothing. Can’t believe I forgot about that?

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                  2 hours ago

                  It doesn’t seem you believe in much. Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost

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          13 hours ago

          Oranges don’t exist naturally, was the point I was making. Theyre a hybrid, derived at least partly from pomelo.

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            13 hours ago

            You are right, it’s just that in Spanish a “pomelo” is a grapefruit, and I was unaware of the whole rabbit hole that is the hybridwtion of the pomelo, mandarin, citrus and all that. I deleted my old comment because I was just confused.

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              13 hours ago

              No worries, I don’t know all the details and looking more deeply, it looks to be more complicated than I was remembering too.