General population easily dismisses food processed and prepared by large corporations. Vomitoxin, feces, infestation, insect damaged kernels. All bad. People want natural unprocessed food...
I was born and raised in Eastern Europe. Thanks to complete failure of socialism, there was no large functioning food industry. We had natural food back then, chicken raised by Grandma, wheat she sow herself, fresh eggs every day. And now the surprise: eggs were dirty, wheat was damaged by insects, meat was processed with dirty hands. Yup, all natural and all with vomitoxin levels exceeding any today's standards likely. Salmonella poisoning was pretty common. Hey, but it's all good because... no one checked the levels of x, no one tested for salmonella, etc.
The modern food that guarantees some standard is not so bad! At least we know what it has and we can work on reducing it.
I was born and raised in Eastern Europe. Thanks to complete failure of socialism, there was no large functioning food industry. We had natural food back then, chicken raised by Grandma, wheat she sow herself, fresh eggs every day. And now the surprise: eggs were dirty, wheat was damaged by insects, meat was processed with dirty hands. Yup, all natural and all with vomitoxin levels exceeding any today's standards likely. Salmonella poisoning was pretty common. Hey, but it's all good because... no one checked the levels of x, no one tested for salmonella, etc.
The modern food that guarantees some standard is not so bad! At least we know what it has and we can work on reducing it.