| Willy Blackmore: In Mexico, Corn Is More Than Just a Grain - It's Living History Willy Blackmore - TakePart | |
| go to original March 15, 2014 |
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The Flower of Corn (The Perennial Plate)
In America, corn politics is mired in subsidies, crop insurance, and soil conservation. As a commodity crop, it’s defined by per-bushel prices and per-acre yield - impersonal figures that speak more of the trading floor of the commodities exchange in Chicago than the black topsoil of the nearby farms.
In Mexico, however, where corn was first domesticated some 6,000 years ago, the personal is the political where maize is concerned. Unlike American farmers, many campesinos - the small holders that account for two-thirds of the country’s corn production - grow heirloom corn varieties that have been passed down through generations of farming families.
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