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throwawaytrumper t1_j4lfxth wrote

Reply to comment by BafangFan in There’s a strong relationship between diet in early life and food preferences in adulthood, research finds by Additional-Two-7312

Foods in the past absolutely made us sick. Food based illnesses prior to the industrial age were commonplace and I have no idea how you got the notion that they were not.

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BafangFan t1_j4m3cq3 wrote

Humans in the past, like humans in the present, have the ability to see, smell and taste their food. We are highly sensitive to the signs of purification of meat.

I'm sure that most of our ancestors had a higher parasitic infection rate - but that doesn't necessarily cause chronic illness like what we have today.

Dogs and pigs literally eat poop - their own and others. And they live. Cats lick their butts. We are not so fragile in that sense.

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