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Jiang lists three costs of farming: harder work and population pressure, poorer nutrition than hunter-gatherers, and higher disease exposure from dense, dirty settlement with animals and waste.
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"this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals..."
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"...wheat and some vegetables Okay, so you're not getting that much nutrition then the third problem is that is as a Farmer you were..."
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"I'll tell you what the problem is. Multi nutrition is a problem in Afghanistan. Okay. And then I started to work in study abroad..."
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"...you have a battlefield dominance okay put them in a war nutrition exactly exactly that's what you want to do you know and the..."
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"...increase, but you don't have improvements in sanitation, in health, in nutrition, well what happens? You have something called the Black Death, which causes..."
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"...Okay? Starting in about the year 1800, because of improvements in nutrition, sanitation, the population explodes. Alright? And this is true for, throughout Europe...."
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"...are pretty easy to grow, and they provide a lot of nutrition for the European nations, okay? But what's important is, what's really driving..."
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