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Over the thousands of years we were eating foods before the inventions of GMOs, we had plenty of other ways to breed crops and livestock to be more desirable. W
by cwyers 7y ago
Over the thousands of years we were eating foods before the inventions of GMOs, we had plenty of other ways to breed crops and livestock to be more desirable. We also tended to die a lot of malnutrition.
- sbenitoj 7y agoMost tribal people died of natural causes or traumatic injuries, malnutrition was not widespread. Read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price for more background on this.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> We also tended to die a lot of malnutrition. Only because populations tended to run closer to their own carrying capacity so that any shock (from variation in the natural environment or human conflict or ...) would put them over and cause malnutrition, not because normal supply was inadequate. It's only fairly recently that humans other than in the most ideal environments could produce more than a small surplus of food even in good years (of course, that capacity was acheived in part by millenia of engineering for food for yield traits, with a lot of incidental changes induced along the way.)