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  • “spices” were valued for their exclusivity, or because rich people ate them.

    For example, allium plants like garlic and onion were viewed with suspicion and disgust, even considered poisons. This isn’t because they don’t taste good, more that anybody with a garden could grow them. Meanwhile, spices like nutmeg, which only grow in far-off places were coveted.

    This is also the probable explanation for prohibitions on pork. Pigs are the meat of the poor, because you don’t need much land or resources to raise them. That old wives tale about trichinosis implies that ancient people were too stupid to cook their pork thoroughly while consuming chicken and fish that had the same illness and parasite problems as pigs.


  • This article’s reasoning is faith based. The cornerstone assumption is that industry profits and layoffs obey the preferences of the market.

    To those who follow the industry, this is demonstrably false. What follows is the lack of awareness on full display:

    and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.