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thx for the diabeetus
fun fact, that is a eugenicist health scare campaign started by settlers to demonize indigenous peoples whose traditional diets are rich in corn.
famine and genocide are known causes of chronic illness. surviving colonialism is inherently disabling and heightened diabetes rates are a side-effect of that. it makes no scientific sense to me to completely ignore the social determinants of health and blame the diets of entire ethnic groups for their chronic illness rates.
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
Seriously, grilled on the cob dipped in butter is the most bestest way to consume this sweet grass!
It’s the Coca-Cola, stupid.
I don’t think it was the Mexican farmers that gave us diabeetus. I’d blame it on the sugar cartels in the US.
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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Mexico didn’t exist back then. Europeans hadn’t conquered and genocided and created states in the Americas.
This was native (indigenous) americans. Nearly 10’000 years before the word Mexico was first uttered.
Mexica are native
indigeneity and nationality are two different concepts that have nothing to do with each other.
this can range from indigenous Oaxacans who are US citizens to Mexican citizens who are settlers who murder indigenous people in Mexico to steal their land.
What did the natives call the region in their language?
Well before Mexico, it was the Aztecs
I don’t know where exactly maize was cultivated, but Mexico comes from city Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
They found millenia old traces of maize in the valley of the Rio Balsa in Xihuatoxtla and also in the valley of Tehuacán.
Something about Coxcatlán phase. Couldn’t find a name of a people who would have been responsible for the domestication.
It’s easiest to say it happened in Mesoamerica.
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 feels kinda strange to call them Mexican farmers. Like referring to the people who lived where the US is 9000 years ago “American Farmers”.
Like I guess that’s technically correct in a way. But it still feels weird.
and turkey, they domesticated the turkey we eat…
and china, they domesticated chinese food
Chinese food as we know, everywhere except China, is a purely American invention. It’s history is really interesting, especially how the restaurant owners of the 80s convinced everyone MSG was poison.
In Turkey corn is called “Egypt” and India is called “land of” either “Turkeys” or “Hinduists” depending on how you chose to interpret it.
I select the first ons.
This shit is the cause of a fair bit of anemia and malnutrition in sub Saharan Africa.
Fuck corn.
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
Ask your local chatbot today about the teosinte emoji
@smorty you’ve been a chatbot before, can you answer this question? what’s teosinte?
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AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 7 minutes ago
While some foods are associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, no single ingredients in and of themselves cause diabetes - obesity does. That’s why every fad diet can make a semi-credible claim to have “cured” people’s diabetes. If you lose enough weight, it might go into remission.
And to be clear, none of what I just said is meant to imply a moral, individual failure on the part of anyone who is living/struggling with obesity and diabetes. It’s a complex thing, and like all complex things we can go ahead and blame corporations for it. 👍