Where was the moment when they said "yum, let's feed people wood."?

[icarus]

What I want to know is when was the moment when they said, hey, let's feed people wood?

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[cleverthylacine]

As a person with celiac disease I'm surprisingly okay with this. Before they started using cellulose as a binder it was almost always gluten. Cellulose is a natural plant fibre present in almost every vegetable ever. Gluten is a poison (to me) found only in wheat, barley, rye and contaminated oats.

[dancing_moon]

Oh, baking bread with wood scrapings was an old trick in misgrowth times. But re weird additives, I've heard that the French law that forbids a baguette from containing anything but flour, water, salt and yeast was instituted because bakers threw in straw, plaster and who-knows-what in the dough...