Let 'em eat mold

I was lucky to have one last piece of cornbread to soak up my homemade wildrice soup today at lunch. I made the batch over two weeks ago, therefore, examined it carefully for mold. My home baked stuff has no preservatives and often molds after a week or so. I learned long ago to keep bread in the refrigerator to prevent moldy invasions. Bread mold, Rhizopus nigricans, is reported to need a warm dark place to breed. Not my bread mold. It grows in the refrigerator sometimes as well. It does not "breed" because it is asexual, and that is probably why it is the most common mold worldwide.
Bread molds are benign and generally not harmful. Species nigricans is a contaminant/opportunistic pathogen, reported to be allergenic, to cause certain infections in compromised (sick or weak) individuals. Does it have any medicinal properties? It is a species of Penicellium so I wouldn't think it is all bad. I've had Penicellin administered by nurses to my fat body parts when overcome by infections picked up elsewhere.
In a fictitious novel I am reading, orphans live on the streets - survive on the streets - eating scraps of food found in the gutters. More than likely scraps of bread have been discarded long enough to grow mold of the nigricans type. Other species of mold grows on different edible stuff and are ingested as well. Some of these street urchins not only grow up but find their way into life as self reliant adults.
Have they survived because of the penicellin they ingested? Do the present street people who actually prefer to live that free life style get their antibiotics from garbage? Well, my curious experience with mold made the preposterous idea cross my mind. Mold reproduces with spores, microscopic little devils that are lighter than air and move with impunity. Do not fear! They are helpless in healthy bodies. We cannot avoid the spores but we can discourage their reckless reproduction with sanitary wiping cloths at every opportunity.
Naomi Sherer