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
Comment on thx for the diabeetus
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
This shit is the cause of a fair bit of anemia and malnutrition in sub Saharan Africa.
Fuck corn.
F_State@midwest.social 2 days ago
Katrisia@lemmy.today 1 day ago
God, it’s always the obtuse colonizers…
xep@discuss.online 2 days ago
I don’t know about highly. It’s better than not processing it.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
that’s like blaming potatoes for deaths caused by green potatoes.
corn doesn’t cause anemia or malnutrition, it’s partly because it’s not processed properly through nixtmalization and partly because of poverty caused by colonialism
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Potatoes aren’t green by default when ripe.
“this is like blaming guns for killing people, it’s just that they didn’t have the right bullets loaded”
reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But it’s the bullets fault the potatoes are green!! Is the fascist colonists immigrants hasn’t shot the potatoes, they’d be brown!