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Is this at all common? I know there are plenty of vegans out there, but I've never met anyone who maintains a fructarian diet. Is it even possible to maintain a healthy diet with such restrictions? --Robert Merkel
- Apparently SF author H. G. Wells was aware of such a diet; otherwise, in his novel The Time Machine, he wouldn't have given the Eloi such a diet.
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In many cases, eating fruit does the parent plant a favor. All fleshy fruit is designed to be eaten by animals and either travel through the animal's digestive tract before it sprouts in a pile of ready-made fertilizer; or, in the case of fruits with cores or pits, to be carried away from the parent plant, eaten, and the core or pit which contains the seeds or is the seed, tossed aside to sprout.
- Obviously this does not include the cases of "nuts, ... beans, peas, [and] grains", in which the seed is pulverized by teeth or pre-ground by machine to a powder. How dare humans enslave plants and then take away their reproductive capacacity! Ahem. Just an observation.
Eating fruit only does the parent plant a favor if the human poops the fruit outside of a toilet. Certainly seeds will be destroyed in water-treatment plants. Additionally, by eating seedless fruits you certainly are not doing the parent plant a favor.
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