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So I watched this webinar & have a few thoughts.

Incoming mega🧵 on #Medicine & #ModernAg

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At the dawn of the 20th century life expectancy for Americans hovered around 45 years of age.

In other parts of the globe, people lived to the ripe old age of 30.

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At the same time ~ 45% of the American population farmed.

According to 1950 census data 1 out of 2 Americans lived on a farm in 1900.

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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

Aflatoxin plays a major role in the development of liver cancer world-wide.

Where does aflatoxin come from?

Fungal infections of crops...

How about a Friday fungal thread?🧵1/
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>60% of the world's population depends on 3 staple grasses for their food security: Rice, wheat & corn (maize).

It turns out that insects like to eat these cereals for breakfast - a huge problem for small holder farmers.2/

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As insects snack, they pick up fungal spores from weeds & soil then spread them from plant to plant.

A double-whammy -

Not only do farmers lose crops to the insects, but the remaining crop gets infected. 3/

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