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[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pineapple tries to eat you back when you eat it, if that makes you feel any better. That painful sensation in your mouth that fresh pineapple causes is a digestive enzyme that the fruit releases to prevent animals from eating it. Works on humans about as well as capsaicin.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Like I said, I'm going to keep eating plants. It's just something to think about in terms of what suffering means and what people are willing to interpret as suffering and what they will accept when it comes to killing a living thing.