What Diabetic Monkeys and American Gun Culture Have in Common

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Friday January 17, 2014 · 8:25 AM PST

2014/01/17 · 08:25

Zoos all over the world are discovering that monkeys who are fed a diet rich with fruit grown primarily for human beings are becoming obese and having health problems typically seen in the human population. It seems the fruit, selectively nurtured and hybridized to maximize the sweetness humans enjoy, has become a less than ideal staple for the lesser primates (and I mean lesser as in the evolutionary scale that we humans have created, which places humans as the higher primate, naturally, at the pinnacle of development).