[tlynchpin]

ha I was gonna comment this sounds like a book I read recently (since I didn't read TFA because who even does that).

I'm unsatisfied with the cassava and acorn stuff. I get that metabolism is externalized and I get that once it is a cultural practice then that's just how it is. I struggle with envisioning the part in between where the processing is newish and becoming a practice, especially in regards to something like the cassava toxin that doesn't happen until decades later. How does a processing strategy sustain in those early iterations? Versus the animal husbandry practices, they have more immediate results that seem less vulnerable to biases making false causation. I think I struggle with the making sense part of it, what I got from the book is that considering cause is a luxury won by doing it "because I said so".

[weeksie]

I'm 100% with you on that, and I have no idea how you'd go about assembling that kind of forensic data.