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[โ€“] Paragone@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 22 hours 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.