#37: These People Helped Mankind
Okay, this might be pretty niche, but I actually think about this quite a lot. I mean, when it comes to what foods we can and can’t eat, there is such a wealth of inherited knowledge that it really makes you wonder how each edible food (and each inedible one) was discovered.
Like any important discovery, there were obviously prices to be paid along the way, and someone had to die from the berries of deadly nightshade so that we could enjoy the sheer pleasure of a raspberry or a blackberry. We apologize for your suffering and thank you for your service to the greater good.