Maybe that says something about you (just joking).
Alcohol has other uses, though admittedly it was probably first used for drinking. Goes back to accidentally mixing water with honey, creating heavenly mead.
Anyway, Arabic was spoken for centuries if not millennia before the Muslim prohibition.
Alcohol was not initially forbidden in Islam, but after an incident where an important Imam drank too much and was not able to lead the prayers correctly, it was banned for drinking and can only be used for medicinal purposes.
And which Imam was that? I have never heard this story. I know for a fact that alcohol was gradually banned by Muhammad himself through decrees of God, revealed and preserved to this day in specific verses of the Quran, which are easily found by searching Quran.com or a similar site with an index of the Quran.
It's an interesting history, and far older than 5000 BC. It appears that beer was being produced in the ancient near east as much as 13,000 years ago. Ancient evidence from China, around 9,000 years ago (7000 BC) was of a beverage fermented from honey, rice and grapes, making it (technically, since it is fermented from a grain) beer, mead and wine, all at once!
I've never before heard the idea that any of these processes took place by "accident"; that is surely a folk conjecture. Indeed, fermentation is a natural process that can take place without human intervention at all; it's something that was discovered and refined, not invented, let alone by accident.
I only got it by guessing, I've never seen alfalfa, and horses in Ireland (where I live) don't eat it. I don't think it's cultivated or used much in Europe.
When I was a kid we used to grow alfalfa in a jar on the kitchen windowsill, so we ate it all the time, on its own, in salads, even in stir fry or jaffles. We are humans.
Two days ago, I probably wouldn't have known it, but just yesterday I read an article about a Saudi owned farm in Arizona that is growing alfalfa and using a lot of precious groundwater to do it.
That alfalfa gets exported as feed for Saudi dairy cows. Aquifers once used for farming in Saudi Arabia have long since run dry because of unsustainable practices, and so now, they can no longer grow their own feed.
Allegedly they all met in an alley behind the Alamo. Although allergic to aloe, their ally Al Gore altruistically allowed an alternative meeting drinking ale and listening to altos in the Alps to slip.
Alcohol has other uses, though admittedly it was probably first used for drinking. Goes back to accidentally mixing water with honey, creating heavenly mead.
Anyway, Arabic was spoken for centuries if not millennia before the Muslim prohibition.
I've never before heard the idea that any of these processes took place by "accident"; that is surely a folk conjecture. Indeed, fermentation is a natural process that can take place without human intervention at all; it's something that was discovered and refined, not invented, let alone by accident.
Also, your comment led me to look up jaffles, since I had never encountered the term before. They look quite tasty!
That alfalfa gets exported as feed for Saudi dairy cows. Aquifers once used for farming in Saudi Arabia have long since run dry because of unsustainable practices, and so now, they can no longer grow their own feed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol
(just joking, on the basis that teachers use to say everything beginning with 'al' is of Arabic origin)