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Old joke:
Do you know what they used to call Organic Food in the 1930's?
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Would need to be closer to early 1800's because canning foods became popular around then. Canning included a lot of processing.
There's also the issue of pesticides which got their kickoff in the late 19th century and were in full swing use by the 1920's.
We didn't get engineered edible oils (like canola) until the 1930s. Things didn't get bad until engineered food
Things didn’t get bad until engineered food
That's literally ignoring pesticides which came first. My grandfather got Parkinsons from exposure to pesticides. Frankly, I probably will, too.
I somewhat agree with the people who say humanity's biggest mistake was the invention of farming
We were all so healthy before that Egyptian technology made it to Europe
Ancient Greeks referred to the times before cities grew around farming areas as the golden age, when gods walked along men