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Ultraprocessed food ... vs natural food. Look up "Moederkoorn" (Claviceps purpurea). It's a fungus, grows on natural wheat, and goes into bread, essentially imp
by candiodari 4y ago
Ultraprocessed food ... vs natural food. Look up "Moederkoorn" (Claviceps purpurea). It's a fungus, grows on natural wheat, and goes into bread, essentially impossible to avoid, almost worldwide spread. STILL totally untreatable. Results in slow painful near-certain death.
There's a reason we switched to ultraprocessed foods. And that reason largely isn't money, but too many people dying from lack of protection against natural adversaries.
- lm28469 4y agoErgotism ? There are no cure indeed but it's easily preventable, people would be dropping around you if it wasn't It has nothing to do with ultra processed food (unless you imagine people eating raw wheat straight from the plant), plenty of people live without that, just fine, if not better actually
- DuckFeathers 4y agoWheat is only popular because it has been a starvation food for the Europeans for thousands of years. If you are not starving, there is little reason to eat it. The wheat seed has evolved complex phytotoxins as defense to protect itself from being eaten. We try to get rid of a lot of it using yeast and bacterial fermentation and cooking, but residue is enough to poison people to varying degrees. There are grains which are less toxic. Having said that, we may need to preserve a subculture to keep the practice if we ever need it (just for diversification purposes, in case we lose other grains to disease or change in climate).