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people just don't know anything about the past.
They've bought this "your ancestors were all veggie muchers" bullshit.
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@sickburnbro It's sad that people can't understand that farming and raising cattle doesn't have to be at industrial scale to feed large amounts of people. Industrial food and exportation is not normal, it's a blip in the timeline.
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@sickburnbro He's retarded. Most people lived on farms and ate what they grew and traded with neighbours. And everyone liked meat. Farmers did *not* live on salads and lentils. They couldn't physically do the work if they did. And the city populations were a huge market. The population was not anywhere near where you need the industrialised scale we have today.
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@petra the key to remember is that you can only preserve so much food, and growing hay is easy and you can feed it to animals in the winter and slaughter some in late fall then have some fresh meat.
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@skylar @sickburnbro @wgiwf wait till they tell you about the Gros Michel/Cavendish change (it's why banana candy and real bananas taste different)
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@branman65 @skylar @wgiwf it makes me so sad
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@wgiwf @sickburnbro it's unreasonable how cheap bananas are, chat
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@sickburnbro They tend to forget that year round access to all kinds of fruit and vegetables wasn't a thing until relatively recently, historically.
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@sickburnbro People didnt have access to the same variety of products before globalization so meat and animal products were pretty important to a balanced diet. People in Europe had grains but they didnt have tomatos or potatoes or corn until people went to america and exotic fruits and vegetables started being more common place after the renaissance era. People in Europe literally developed lactose tolerance because animals were so important to their health