• KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This shit is the cause of a fair bit of anemia and malnutrition in sub Saharan Africa.

    Fuck corn.

    Edit: there are tons of research articles about how corn meal such as pap/samp or other regional varieties cause iron and micronutrition deficiencies in babies in the area.

    Spouting out “bUT tHeY jUsT NeEd to PReParE iT CorReCtly” is so fucking privelaged abelist arm chair scientist that it’s insane.

    Fortification helps, but that doesn’t happen in a lot of places that grow and process their own corn.

    Not everyone gets to go to the corner store and buy their corn in a fucking bag.

    Corn is a shit food, your body doesn’t even process it well and it has an actual impact on rural populations nutrition and development because of this.

    • F_State@midwest.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Maize (corn) processed into masa like they did for millennia in the Americas is highly nutritious. White people thought it was something “dumb” brown people did and didn’t reap the true benefits of the crop

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think it was the Mexican farmers that gave us diabeetus. I’d blame it on the sugar cartels in the US.

      • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        High-fructose maize isn’t an Indegenous invention: that’s a White invention.

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        • it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The maize isn’t high-fructose; corn syrup is entirely an industrial product, made by chemically digesting corn starch. If the yield numbers worked out differently, we could all be eating high fructose wheat syrup or potato syrup, but maize happened to fit into our extractive systems the best, a sad fate for a beautiful grain.