Food’s divine association has persisted since early agriculture.

Evidence

The habit of seeing something divine in the crops that sustain us, formed all over the world around 10,000 years ago, is still stubbornly alive. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 182

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 182
• XREF: connects to: Religious worship may have driven the agricultural revolution rather than resulting from it.; Subsistence peoples continue eating contaminated food despite advisories because eating is sacred obligation