Because corn was a grass and not real nutritious . I’m sure that before the Europeans got here the natives selectively nurtured the better strains for a better food source. Through centuries of selective genetic modification it has become a staple for millions if not billions of people. Corn before man started modifying it would not have caused much of an obesity problem.
Because corn was a grass and not real nutritious . I’m sure that before the Europeans got here the natives selectively nurtured the better strains for a better food source. Through centuries of selective genetic modification it has become a staple for millions if not billions of people. Corn before man started modifying it would not have caused much of an obesity problem.
I am sorry, but your logic makes no sense to me.
1. First you say corn is a grass so not “real” nutritious? I believe there actually are some very nutritious grasses...barley? alfalfa?
2. You say you are sure (not sure how you are, but I will take your word for it) that natives nurtured the better strains...welcome to agronomy and plant breeding. by nurturing the better strains, they were plant breeding...selecting better plants that could be cross pollinated to form new hardier more nutritious varieties...this is what plant breeders do....seedless water mellon? seedless grapes? broccoflower? tangelos? etc
3. If corn was not nutritious, and it was improved over the centuries as you say, then why would that cause obesity and be bad thing? Seems to me that obesity is caused by eating too much....not by producing too much....
farmers feed the world :)