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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Nutrition
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..."
"...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..."
"...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..."
"...Okay? Starting in about the year 1800, because of improvements in nutrition, sanitation, the population explodes. Alright? And this is true for, throughout Europe...."
"...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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