Amid The Alien Corn – by Mike Leavy
"Amid The Alien Corn" is taken from John Keats' poem Ode to a Nightingale. I doubt Keats had GMO in thoughts when he wrote that line, nevertheless it matches right this moment’s narrative on corn so properly. So I’m stealing it.It could take some contorting to overstate the significance of corn as a meals supply in Mexico. Roughly 10,000 years in the past, by way of a technique of selective breeding, farmers in Mexico's highlands produced what we right this moment name maize, or corn. Corn is, as an historic truth, hecho en Mexico.Over the centuries since its cultivation, maize turned a important part of the weight-reduction plan of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. And it continues to fill that roll right this moment. Tamales, tortillas, hominy, elote, esquites -…
