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thx for the diabeetus

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Submitted ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • xtools@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn’t sweet at all. It’s more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc…

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    • coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The crazy thing is, every time I have tried a yank drink with corn syrup that my country has the equivalent to without corn syrup, the yank one tastes like ass without fail, and leaves your mouth feeling weird.

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    • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seriously, grilled on the cob dipped in butter is the most bestest way to consume this sweet grass!

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  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • xtools@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s a bingo! rest of the world doesn’t use corn syrup

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      • Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • F_State@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The change from teosinte to maize involved a surprisingly small change to it’s genetic code. Something like 5 genes.

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    • GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So there is hope for people with small dick size? 

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      • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        CRISPR is there for you

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      • F_State@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Learn to eat pussy/suck dick or find a partner with an unusually small vagina/bussy.

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  • FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • hide@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mexica are native

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      • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What did the natives call the region in their language?

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      • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well before Mexico, it was the Aztecs

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      • wieson@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and turkey, they domesticated the turkey we eat…

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    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and china, they domesticated chinese food

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      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Is that how they bred orange chickens?

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Slowly. It happened slowly over multiple generations.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      And if 90% of it wasn’t GMO’d to hell so that the fructose yield was unnaturally high

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wrong god posted: Centeotl

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s the Coca-Cola, stupid.

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  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Mesoamerican for what we’ve called the aztecs and Indigenous American for the ones who were genocided by Europe?

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    • F_State@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You might say “prehistoric mexican farmers” or “prehistoric farmers of modern day mexico”

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  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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. 👍

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  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ask your local chatbot today about the teosinte emoji

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    • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @smorty you’ve been a chatbot before, can you answer this question? what’s teosinte?

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

    Fuck corn.

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    • F_State@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”

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  • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you re-welcome

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