• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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.

    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You can blame the sugar cartels all you want, The truth is if you’re an American, you finance this shit through your taxes. Corporations suck, but what sucks more is that people don’t realize they help pay for their own slow demise in the name of profit.

      • Paragone@lemmy.world
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        3 days 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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          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.