If we thought lead in the water was bad, just wait for the news of all the dietary and microbiota damage we've been doing to ourselves.

Obviously this could also become a population-level attack vector.

I'm getting TLOU vibes....

....I've enjoyed the first two episodes.

and hack the other way around, to clear heads and positive wholesome thinking

There are more bacteria cells in your body than your cells. We are hack on a hack on a hack on a hack.

Lucky for us the bacteria are willing to host us.

Yes but bacteria cells are generally tiny. We have our own bacteria-like "cells" inside our own cells (mitochondria) and maybe it helps to even out the numbers?

A nationstate could hack a competing nationstate by spiking food exports with brain fog causing microbes.

Isn’t the United States already doing this with McDonald’s and Coca Cola? /s

Wheat and corn /s

We joke but it is actually worrying that most commercialized grains, corn, and their byproducts can do a lot of damage over time. Our guts aren't built to digest these things to begin with, and that's not even considering the toxins involved in the growing environments and manufacturing processes of this stuff.