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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by charles brough

Michaelangelo, you have presented a great case for how the food processing and food service industry is messing up a good product. I forgot if you had also mentioned the genetic engineering, but still, the question asked was what is wrong with corn? Nothing, it is what we are doing to it.

After all, it was and still is the staple of the New World and has been for over 2,000 years.

My grandfather, who was Native American, grew his own special sweet corn. He used seeds from the ears that he thought were the best over much of his life. His sweet corn when dried for seed, would often have large crystals of sugar inside the seeds, the seeds would be clear with sugar. the corn was a deep yellow almost orange. The ears were smaller than commercial corn but no better eating corn was to be found anywhere. He also grew many acres of field corn to feed the animals with but his sweet corn, and tomatoes, and other vegetables he grew from seeds saved from year to year were great tasting and I would assume healthy as well. He developed his own vegetables by simply using his own knowledge and farming techniques known and used for centuries by farmers everywhere. No giant seed companies were needed.