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by Attummm 558 days ago
To add to your point.

The food industry, like any other industry, focuses on numbers. Consumer spending favors new varieties of fruit with sweeter taste (e.g., increased glucose/fructose content). This process has led to our current comical situation where fruit, which is perceived as natural, has become unfit for consumption by animals.

>Fruits have gotten too sweet for some animals and zookeepers have had to find alternative foods.

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-10-03-fruit-so-sweet-zoo-...