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I was eating an apple the other day and suddenly felt really sad because I felt I was entering into a contract with the fruit where my side was to inadvertently spread its seeds, but what I actually did was put them in the bin.

The fruit allows itself to be eaten so it can reproduce and we deprive it of that and it doesn't even know.
 

Leo

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as kids, we'd eat slices of watermelon outside and have a competition to see who could spit the seeds the furthest. you'd think we'd have a watermelon patch after a few years, but no.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I was eating an apple the other day and suddenly felt really sad because I felt I was entering into a contract with the fruit where my side was to inadvertently spread its seeds, but what I actually did was put them in the bin.

The fruit allows itself to be eaten so it can reproduce and we deprive it of that and it doesn't even know.
Do you suppose there are more, or fewer, apple trees in the world than there would be if humans had not domesticated them?

The apples are winning, man.
 

catalog

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Apple pips contain cyanide, don't they?

Theydo, but it's a small amount. You would have to eat a lot to die, I've checked. There is another one that has higher quantities, plum stone maybe? But they are v tough to crack.
 

jenks

thread death
Don’t know how people feel about Roger Deakin but his last book: Wildwood included a section where he tries to trace the origin and spread of the apple tree - he ends up in Kyrgyzstan claiming it as the Ur-tree location.
 
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