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Blind Frog Belly White11/17/2013 8:32:16 am PST

re: #50 Lidane

We really can’t. So much of the corn that’s grown in this country is inedible in its natural state. It has to be processed first:

videos.howstuffworks.com

It’s pushing the definition of ‘inedible’ to say it’s inedible. By that definition, so is wheat.

A large part of the diet in Mexico, for example, is made up of this kind of corn, after it’s been nixtamalized, which that video sensationalizes as ‘treating it with a corrosive chemical’. This is why, when we started making ethanol from corn for fuel uses, Mexicans saw their food costs rising dramatically - because we can, and do, eat it.