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Farmer-Rick

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7. I once read an article that made the argument that the only reason human kind started farming
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:09 PM
Aug 2018

Was to create and drink alcoholic beverages.

I can't find a link, but the gist of the argument is that farming is such hard back breaking work, especially in ancient times, that to switch from hunter gathers to farmers had to have more incentives than what is commonly used to justify the change. And farming and alcohol fermentation developed together and at the same time across most of human societies.

So, I doubt folks are going to give it up any time soon.

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