OK. I read potatoes and started thinking about the nightshade family and its poisonous plants, and tomatoes and potatoes being frowned on in Europe for a long time. With the Covid vaccines, the pressure to try something unproven/new would be more justifiable if it were for a disease that was killing say a million+ people a month, with no known treatment.
But, our diets would be greatly impaired if we ate nothing but what our long-ago ancestors ate. This is true for every nationality.
AHEM! Not "what our ancestors ate" but perhaps "what humans SOMEWHERE on the planet have been eating for a long time", perhaps. :).
OK. I read potatoes and started thinking about the nightshade family and its poisonous plants, and tomatoes and potatoes being frowned on in Europe for a long time. With the Covid vaccines, the pressure to try something unproven/new would be more justifiable if it were for a disease that was killing say a million+ people a month, with no known treatment.