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> "well let the kids eat dirt" I always think about how animals eat - basically their food is never clean and always mixed with dirt. Evolution dealt with this
by dist-epoch 1y ago
> "well let the kids eat dirt"
I always think about how animals eat - basically their food is never clean and always mixed with dirt. Evolution dealt with this problem since forever.
- pletnes 1y agoAnd most of them die young.
- dist-epoch 1y agoBut mostly not because of what they have eaten.
- IAmBroom 1y agoCitation needed.
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- jojobas 1y agoYou have to balance the future immune system with current dysentery.
- eviks 1y agoAnd one of the ways evolution dealt with this problem is evolving intelligence the can then tell you to improve hygiene practices to reduce the "natural" death rate
- exe34 1y agoYes, evolution kills the weak. I don't think you're saying "let them die"?
- maccard 1y agoMy dog will eat literal street crap at the first opportunity. She’ll also just throw it up on the carpet 2 hours later if she’s not feeling it. Not sure that’s a really an improvement.
- array_key_first 1y agoMost animals die. Most babies die, too, until medicine and hygiene.
- vharuck 1y ago>Evolution dealt with this problem since forever. For humans, that solution may have been 9-month gestation periods and two-decade fertility windows. A solution, to be sure, but not very desirable.
- rtpg 1y agoPlenty of stuff is poison to animals as well as humans! Lots of animals get sicknesses and like parasites from everything they eat. Like with humans, though, animals have immune systems which help. This is the trouble with food hygiene arguments: you can eat "dangerous" food and 99% of the time be fine. But it's still good for people to not roll the dice on this stuff, even with a 1% hit rate. We eat food 3 times a day, so that's potentially 9 very adverse events per year! "Yeah I get food poisoning once every month or two" is a thing that some people live through, and I do not believe they enjoy it. I have not have food poisoning for a very long time, and appreciate it a lot.