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What happened in 1921? Or is this one of those baseless "before we had cancer" comments?

• malfist 5y ago
  Cancer wasn't invented then. In all seriousness, things like pasteurization and refrigeration make our food supply a lot safer than it used to be.
• mbg721 5y ago
  I realized at some point that "It's food iff your grandparents would call it food" either has to be amended to add a generation, or we have to accept Oreos pretty soon.
  • bluGill 5y ago
    Margarine was invented in 1869. You need to go back a lot farther. You are also skipping out a lot of newer stuff that wasn't possible back then, but after serious study seems safe. Most of what was done 200 years ago is accepted as safe, but there is no actual evidence for it, and in many cases we know it wasn't. (the obvious example of using lead in finishes for food contact items)
• tyingq 5y ago
  I suppose there's some merit in the "before we had cancer" thing. Certainly many people were dying of other stuff long before they would have gotten cancer.