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What You Aren't Told About Traditional Diets
29 Aug 2024
Rotten Meat & Fly Larvae—What You Aren’t Told About Traditional Diets
Humans have always enjoyed eating rotten and putrid meat. Some of the anecdotes seem outrageous, bordering on the absurd to contemporary ears.
They then list all the anecdotes, in horrific detail. My favourite quote:
the meat is so full of lethal byproducts that the local people (Khanty, Evenki etc) have to be conditioned from childhood to be able to stomach it and not die a horrible death from neurotoxin overload.
I’ve said it before. Atavism isn’t the answer.
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