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One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it. (lemmy.today)
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[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Yup, that's thought to be one of the main reasons we domesticated dogs. They could keep up, so they earned their keep, and because we anthropomorphize everything it was obviously only fair we share with them.

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