• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    4 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.

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        4 months ago

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

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        • it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems
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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.