>>999422>Grains that existed before agriculture and selective breeding bore no resemblance to grains of today.Nearly everything we eat today has been domesticated in some form or another. The only exceptions I'm aware would be fish, wild game and bugs.
I'm not saying domestication is necessarily good, a good example would be iceberg lettuce, which is very popular because it is cheap to grow, but compared to other lettuce cultivars only have a fraction of the nutrients and is more a waste of money if anything.
But with that said, without domestication humanity would never have developed past the hunter gatherer lifestyle, undomesticated sources of food were either unavailable, scarce, or too low yield to be support civilization. It was the great wheat and rice fields of Africa, the Middle East and Asia that propelled humanity forwards.
Domestication is usually good though, just look at broccoli, one of the healthiest things you can put in your mouth, and the wild plant it was domesticated from(pic related), which is nothing more that a few weed like leaves that doesn't resemble broccoli in any form. (I have no clue about the nutritional properties of the wild cultivar).
>Paleo diet is silly but grains especially ground up an bigly proccesed are bad mkayI'm just mentioning this since the paleo crowd tends to be all against domesticated foods while being ignorant of all the domesticated foods they think is natural(hur dur wheat bad but broccoli ok), but with rare exception there is nothing inherently wrong with domesticated cultivars, and in many cases, they are improvements simply by being more palatable and sustainable. A food that is better than another one is useless if you can't sustain yourself on it.
So I'd agree that refined grains are bad, but whole grains are actually pretty nutritious since they don't toss away all the micronutrients and fiber by refining it.
