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Bruce[_28_]

In article >,
says...
>
> On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>
> > A guy from a hundred years or more ago would probably plotz if he could get his
> > hands on a Happy Meal or a Hot Pocket.
>
> Well, yeah. We're genetically programmed to prefer fat and sugar.
>
> > The reality is that foods in the era before refrigeration, preservatives, and
> > modern processing, were more dangerous - the Jews and Muslims knew this and
> > made certain foods and practices taboo.
>
> Although it's a happy coincidence that Kashrut and Halal regulations
> make food somewhat safer (and may have actually developed through trial
> and error--mainly error), their main result was to differentiate who
> was in the tribe and who was out of the tribe. Many of the taboos
> in Kashrut have nothing to do with food safety. For example, eels are
> no more or less safe than carp, yet because they have no discernible
> fins or scales, are forbidden.

Humans behave idiotically at the intersection of food and religion.