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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by AceJohnny2 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:45PM (#26825898)
And if you believe in a link between obesity, diabetes, and the prevalence of corn products in our food, the chain of causality looks even worse.
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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by sjg007 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:52PM (#26825972)
Big corn. Amazing plants have enslaved us.
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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by jagger27 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:53PM (#26826622)
There’s a brilliant chapter in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind about how as we domesticated wheat, it domesticated humans in return. Grains are thought to have been dropped along trade routes which allowed for humans to be less nomadic as crops became established. Then we got comfortable. Fascinating to think about.
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