• psud@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    We’re pretty sure that humans chewed food for their children before blenders and packaged baby food

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      8 months ago

      Some even assume children were born before there were hospitals and doctors around, crazy take, I know.

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          8 months ago

          Whole foods

          During the breast feeding time alternatives would be a porridge, or animal milk. I assume you could grind food with a pestle and mortar but the baby would most likely die of malnourishment without it

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            Humans have only been farming grain for about 10 thousand years, and there’s not many other foods you can grind. Ancient humans ate a lot of meat, and babies after weaning ate meat, much of it pre-chewed by mum. Things like brain wouldn’t need to be chewed