Paul-Gabriel Wiener on Nostr: Cooking revolutionized food safety so much that the appendix (which existed to try to ...
Cooking revolutionized food safety so much that the appendix (which existed to try to deal with foodborne parasites) became vestigial. Germ theory led to pasteurization, vaccines, and sterile medical environments, which all but eliminated a whole swath of deadly infections.
Those measures were so successful that we have trends of raw diets, raw milk, antivaxxers, and anti-maskers because people don't remember why they're able to feel safe.
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