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Oranges do not naturally have that much sugar.

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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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I mean, biblically speaking we weren’t supposed to eat those apples.

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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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Yahweh and mind games. What an asshole. 😂

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

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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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