Originally Posted by
Gottalife Well, they reckon that of booze was discovered today it would be banned.
Who is "they"? Banned?!
Clean water, a challenge when humans began to settle. Cities, towns. Is it possible that in Europe they used fermentation? And the resulting alcohol killed microbes?
On the other side of the world people purified their water by boiling it and making tea.
Evolutionary pressure to be able to drink, break down, and detoxify alcohol? European.
It wasn't banned.