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Humans have been cultivating soybeans for an estimated 9000 years. To think that a food staple in so many cultures worldwide is not healthy is completely xenophobic. Maybe don’t tell him that, but the framing of different cultures might be helpful. If it wasn’t healthy humans wouldn’t have thrived spending resources to grow it.

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qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
People have been brewing liquor for thousands of years too

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- Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And it’s effect on the human body is widely known. You’re not making the point you’re trying to.
  
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  - metapod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think the point was just that the argument was flawed.
    
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    Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Flawed in that a staple of civilizations diets is somehow comparable to a known intoxicant?
    
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- AppaYipYip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Alcoholic drinks, for a good part of history, were safer to drink than water because its production includes a boiling step that kills bacteria. We know now that you have to boil or treat water before drinking but for most of history alcohol was safer.
  
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  - Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    dude people back then knew how to sanitize water, this just isn’t true.
    
    The only time you might prefer alcohol over water because it’s safer is in some sort of disaster or emergency.
    
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    nul@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Or because it provided both hydration and calories to people doing manual labor, like field work. It was the Gatorade of the time.
    
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    chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They did not know to sanitize water pre germ theory, during cholera outbreaks they would just keep drinking the untreated contaminated water and infecting themselves.
    
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- Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And it has shaped human culture like perhaps no other food item has.
  
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number6@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is a conspiracy theory, not unlike the theories you will hear on the right. I’ve never heard anyone on the right equate soy with Asian or other cultures.

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- Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Which is a hole in thier own logic, my point entirely.
  
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