Timeline for What Defines a Food as Edible?
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| Aug 30, 2012 at 15:25 | vote | accept | harpalss | ||
| Aug 28, 2012 at 19:37 | comment | added | nico | surely I totally agree although, alas, these laws are seldom made by listening to scientist... | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 17:31 | comment | added | Daniel Standage | @nico Indeed. But whatever any arbitrary group (government, social organization, etc) decides to term as "suitable" does nothing to change the underlying biology, which was the original question (and should be considering the scope of this site). One would expect and hope that such policy decisions be based on the underlying biology... | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | nico | +1: it has to be noted, though, that there is a very big difference between edibility and suitable for human consumption, where the second one is simply defined according to local regulation. A food that is suitable for human consumption for instance in Europe may not be suitable for human consumption in the US and vice versa (and many examples of this exist) | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 16:19 | history | answered | Daniel Standage | CC BY-SA 3.0 |