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<blockquote data-quote="tailoredcarnivore" data-source="post: 1561104" data-attributes="member: 18416">Coffee is a seed not entirely dissimilar from other seeds/legumes which are the &quot;progeny&quot; (read: young sentience of a coffee berry tree). Allow me to suppose something kinda icky for the sake of illustrating why this is: Imagine someone arbitrarily extracting and consuming *your seed* without your being able to prevent it. If someone did that to you, wouldn't you covertly execute a form of in-built or embedeed defense mechanism to exact revenge on the bad actor for doing so without your consent? You surely have such in-built defense mechanisms, as a human, called fists, feet, and teeth, which you'd very much deploy to defend *your seed* from being summarily consumed against your will.Well, that's what the seed of plant-based sentience do exactly, except, they can't move like we can, so, they fight w/ chemical warfare. They're called lectins, oxalates, and goitrigenic estrogens. All seeds have them. They don't go away just because we have them ubiquitously across our respective modern diet in a cultivated &amp; processed drink called &quot;coffee&quot;.Now, I love coffee lol but I very much understand what it's doing when I consume it. I'm tolerant of it to some degree perhaps better than others but still consume in rather small quantities w/ a lot of time between cups (every 24 hours...1 ish cup of moderately strong dark roast)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tailoredcarnivore, post: 1561104, member: 18416"] Coffee is a seed not entirely dissimilar from other seeds/legumes which are the "progeny" (read: young sentience of a coffee berry tree). Allow me to suppose something kinda icky for the sake of illustrating why this is: Imagine someone arbitrarily extracting and consuming *your seed* without your being able to prevent it. If someone did that to you, wouldn't you covertly execute a form of in-built or embedeed defense mechanism to exact revenge on the bad actor for doing so without your consent? You surely have such in-built defense mechanisms, as a human, called fists, feet, and teeth, which you'd very much deploy to defend *your seed* from being summarily consumed against your will. Well, that's what the seed of plant-based sentience do exactly, except, they can't move like we can, so, they fight w/ chemical warfare. They're called lectins, oxalates, and goitrigenic estrogens. All seeds have them. They don't go away just because we have them ubiquitously across our respective modern diet in a cultivated & processed drink called "coffee". Now, I love coffee lol but I very much understand what it's doing when I consume it. I'm tolerant of it to some degree perhaps better than others but still consume in rather small quantities w/ a lot of time between cups (every 24 hours...1 ish cup of moderately strong dark roast) [/QUOTE]

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