Just about everyone these days has someone in their life โa friend, a relative, a co-workerโ who subscribes to the asinine notion that food was better back when people lived in caves. Most of those people are simply misinformed and misguided, but a handful of them are dangerously vocal in spreading their famine-inducing nonsense on the rest of the planet.
So when it comes to those people, show them these pictures to shut them up:
Mmm, look at that delicious dirt stick. Our ancestors could easilyย see how tasty that would be, right? (Wrong, they were probably starving to death and putting anything they could find into their mouths to stave off hunger.)
This is what Dirt-Stick Plant looks like after pesky humans modified it through the dastardly process of genetic manipulation:
Before Human beings started manipulating this weird sort of pizza-looking fruit, ye olde backyard barbecues must have involved a lot of spitting.
And hereโs a Watermelon today:
I donโt know about you, but if I were living in prehistoric times, after I came home from a long day of trying not to die from sepsis or being turned into bear feces โyou know, a โnaturalโ lifestyleโ Iโd just love sink my four teeth into these delicious nubbins:
No, Iโd just rather have a freaking proper ear of corn, or as I like to think of it, โThe Iriquoisโ Revengeโ. And while it may be difficult these days to find any food that doesnโt have obesity-inducing corn syrup added to it, thatโs not the fault of Science, itโs the fault of science-illiterate people who allow bureaucrats and lobbyists to determine what subsidies we should be giving to farmers.
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Everyone loves Cherry Tomatoes in their salads, right?
Sure, but thatโs what a freaking Eggplant looked like before we donned our lab coats, twirled our mustaches, and violated nature started selectively breeding so the damn thing would feed more people.
Now check out this weird, exotic fruit. How the hell would you even eat that?
Would you believe thereโs a former child TV star whoโs trying to make the argument against Evolution based on how โintelligently designedโ this fruit is?
Wrongo Mike Seaver, you curly-mulleted, homework hating rascal. People modified bananas so they didnโt look like a pulpy beehive of buttholes.
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