It still blows my mind that the passenger pigeon, whose flocks were once large enough to blot out the sun, was driven to extinction to produce cheap food for laborers.
It still blows my mind that the passenger pigeon, whose flocks were once large enough to blot out the sun, was driven to extinction to produce cheap food for laborers.
Something I found out recently, is that lobster was once considered cheap food fit only for the lower classes, prisoners, and servants.