It's just occurred to me that in medicine, we have clinical trials that consider the effect of a drug on the whole system - a whole human body. If you get a brain tumour from a kidney treatment, they'll notice.

But for food/farming, that's not the case. We never do trials on the whole system - the natural environment. It's only ever local - effects on yield in one field. And maybe that's why modern food systems cause problems, for the climate, human health etc.

#food #science #climate #farming

So remarkably, without me really spotting it, it turns out I'm only about 120 subscribers away from monetising on YouTube. 😆

If I reached that, I'd actually do more unique history content there like this. Not just games! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v5NCJ4ZnzU&feature=youtu.be