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exboyfil

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4. Cereal crops as main source of calories

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 2, 2022, 09:04 AM

May 2022

Would be my guess. Cereal based diet is not all that great, but it is so much cheaper as a source of calories (translate less labor intensive). Better to have many more less healthy tribesmen than fewer more healthy ones.

Need to watch episode of course.

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