Oddbean

"All the food we've eaten all our lives, that our parents have eaten, and our grandparents have eaten, and so on...it's all been genetically modified by various techniques. Many consumers would be surprised to find out that modern tomatoes are derived from an ancient predecessor that was a tiny, highly toxic berry. It was only through hundreds of years of selective breeding (genetic modification) that we have the modern tomato." —Susanne L. Huttner, Director of Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, University of California Put differently, before humans came in and began selectively breeding all of these fruits (and vegetables) to stimulate potential customers' taste buds as much as possible, they tasted HORRIBLE on the human tongue—from very bitter to deathly poisonous—a natural signal for us not to eat it. But humans did their human thing, turned plants into a product, and hacked their way through nature's signals, so here we are 10,000 years since the agricultural revolution began and everywhere we look we see delicious, addicting, sugar-bombs we call modern fruit. I know it hurts—I loved my mountains of watermelon and strawberries and pineapple and mango too, before I understood it was the sugar-addiction talking. Simply put, if you want to be the most badass possible human you can be, you're better off cutting it all out, and sticking to the proper human diet of 100% meat/salt/water. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/11babb60f66f6e7acc527e2f48c48f9568ff91f46a341ca594c817bfbb356e6d.webp#m=image%2Fwebp&dim=1280x720&blurhash=i5SPU%3A-V_NPAyX%24*%7D%5B00%3Fv_NXma0%2C%40%24*E1ELyDRjrr%252tRS%23NGs%3AsAROW%3DIARPozNaX8t7xGRPt7.SNaIA%24PwdNaJ%2C.8aK&x=5463231cde6fb162202cdf9c69b5202dce417ce5495b412d9cb7f39633a6bb91 https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/9e5ed9d4882173f4c0a27f7ff00c557a5f094345f6ce3537582b80c1c92e77d5.webp#m=image%2Fwebp&dim=1280x640&blurhash=i8QSPZnPv4Rj%7EW%253-Wt7IU%3FbkVV%40WBE1WVt7WUjZtRRjM%7BRj-%3Bt7IUay%252%5E%2CofRjRjE0xas%3AxaofE1s%3ARjxaxuRjRjjtxb&x=51651e3c3b6fc9220d319e52f9fcf52e01c22c83d13adcee9e06aca26f3d7521 nostr:nevent1qqs08pryf8yd0wkhnjfzz7787etxsac9mvk8ddzm725acdd2tn6yagsprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qgsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqrqsqqqqqpnqx9ns