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I don’t think it was the Mexican farmers that gave us diabeetus. I’d blame it on the sugar cartels in the US.
You can blame the sugar cartels all you want, The truth is if you’re an American, you finance this shit through your taxes. Corporations suck, but what sucks more is that people don’t realize they help pay for their own slow demise in the name of profit.
Oh for sure, the broader argument to me would be about sugar subsidies. I don’t support subsidizing the sugar/corn/meat industries. If I had a magic wand I’d much rather those taxes subsidize more nutrient dense foods.
Fucking ag policies, man.
that’s a bingo! rest of the world doesn’t use corn syrup
High-fructose maize isn’t an Indegenous invention: that’s a White invention.
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thx for the diabeetus
you know you don’t have to turn it into corn syrup right? that crap isn’t used widely anywhere but in the US
Corn syrup is better than our other main use for it: Ethanol
Problem is that we have such extreme subsidies that vast swaths of farmers are now entirely reliant on corn subsidies. We make far more corn than we have any use for because of it
No politician wants to be the one to take away the insane corn subsidies because a whole lot of farmers will be upset, and the American public is generally unaware of how wasteful the subsidies are
What’s wrong with ethanol?
They werent mexicans they were mayans, spanish came over and banged em’ turned em into mexicans.
The change from teosinte to maize involved a surprisingly small change to it’s genetic code. Something like 5 genes.
Wrong god posted:
Looks a bit like Jonathan Davis
Ain’t nobody made you fat from that but you. If you were living like the natives were back then, you might be keeping fitter with it
“It’s the Coca-Cola, stupid”.
Slowly. It happened slowly over multiple generations.
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