system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is it possible to 'cook' mouldy or gone-off food long enough that it would no longer be harmful for a human to consume? If not, why?

I don't actually want to do it. I'm just curious...
gpt
Imagine we're all cowboys. The sheriff wants you to arrest all the moldy bacteria, because not only did they put a snake in the sheriff's boots, but they poisoned the waterhole. So you go down to the old mill and round them all up and throw them in jail forever, and now all the bacteria is gone and they can't do any more harm. That's fine, but the real problem now is that they've already poisoned the waterhole, and that poison isn't going away just because the mold is gone.