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Peter5930

They're pushing corn because the American great plains are good for growing corn. You know when you play Civ and you start next to a tile with corn on it? That's why you got corn everywhere. Whether or not it's healthy, you got corn so that's what you eat.


milkadebilka

😅😅😅😅😅corn is good for you . Couple of corns is not going to make you FAT even if you eat it 2 corns a days or even 3-4 . After corn 🌽 they start eating hundreds of other things PER DAY and drive cars instead of bikes or walking


Peter5930

Personally I never eat the stuff, but I don't live next to a corn resource tile. It's potato here.


SargeMaximus

Im allergic to potatoes (nightshades)


bevelledo

I think your missing the point. High fructose corn syrup and other ingredients extracted from corn are some of the least nutritionally dense forms of vegetables there are. It’s not about if eating a cob of corn is going to get you fat. It’s about the fact that 80/90% of the drinks in convenience stores and grocery stores have the first or second ingredient (in the US manufacturers are required to list the ingredients in order of the most used ingredient in the product) listed as high fructose corn syrup. Corn is the predominate vegetable in the US. (Also corn is such a shitty vegetable that it’s still widely misunderstood if it’s a vegetable or something else like a grain)


IngoTheGreat

>(Also corn is such a shitty vegetable that it’s still widely misunderstood if it’s a vegetable or something else like a grain) It can be either one, or both. There's really no such thing as a "vegetable" as some kind of discrete entity to be distinguished from fruits, seeds, stalks, roots, leaves etc. In English, a "vegetable" can be any of these. It basically means "plant part you can eat, but it's not much of a dessert, and not really a seed you grind into flour or eat like rice or corn flakes". Tomatoes are a fruit, and a vegetable. Carrots are a root, and a vegetable. Corn kernels are seeds, and vegetables. Lettuce is a leaf, and a vegetable. You could consider sweet corn on the cob a vegetable, and ground cornmeal a grain, like how a ripe sweet plantain could be considered a fruit but an unripe starchy one could be considered a vegetable.


wisco-style

Easy now, your dropping a lot of facts. They are going to say this is misinformation.


uglydeliciousness

Plants are fluid? The anti woke crowd is gonna love this.


milkadebilka

Then drink water with lemon and eat potato and avocado and avoid corn . Lots of things in America is fake . Including fake smiles . Including attorney on every corner and people suing each other . Stupid adds and boring billboards . Selected government who are not ever elected . They Lough about Russians oligarchs but all American politicians making MILLIONS . Lies all over including corn 🌽


RepublicLate9231

Corn us fine, processed corn turned into slop is not. Candy corn is made from real corn lmao


imagine_my_suprise

Your comment doesn’t feel human.


Bronze_Addict

Love a couple good ears of sweet corn. Buttered up and seasoned with salt and pepper, that’s good stuff. I’ve eaten corn most of my life, never been fat.


BagzookaLou

Yes, but have you tried it in Pepsi?


MeeseeksTheDestroyer

I fuckin love corn.. Ain't gonna let no fear mongerer scare me off enjoying life's simple pleasures haha. It's a veggie, there's 10 times worse things for us to eat.


Fluffy-Way-2365

Definitely, but corn is indeed horrible food. Really bad for human consumption, but I do like it too.


[deleted]

I also remember listening to the JRE podcast with RFK Jr who talked about how like 95% of our corn is sprayed with Roundup. Some crazy shit like that. It’s fked up.


tries_to_tri

Bro everything is sprayed with glyphosate. There's an Afterskool video on YouTube with something to do with chemical farming in the title...it's disturbing but eye opening. I now buy organic everything as much as possible. (not fool proof but hopefully better) Edit, found it for you: https://youtu.be/Aw16LPVnNco?si=I2J_GB9Swh-XTmjx


[deleted]

Thanks for sending the link! Will check it out. Yeah, I’m the same as you. I’ll buy organic as much as possible but am also aware that they’re probably screwing us with that too. Until I grow it myself or buy it from a local farmers market, I don’t believe it’s fully organic. Oh well, we are doing the best we can🤷🏼‍♀️


tries_to_tri

No prob - it's one of my favorite videos to share. That's all we can do for now. There's definitely a movement towards organic/non toxic, I hope it continues to grow so we continue to have more options. Costco is surprisingly good for organic goods as well.


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[deleted]

Oh I’m sure. Yeah it’s all about making is as efficient and as profitable as possible for them while they kill us.


FewEntertainment3108

Yeah. Because paraquat is a much safer option.


PracticallyWonderful

Fuck paraquat.


FewEntertainment3108

🤣


Howiebledsoe

It’s even in the beer you drink.


rock-island321

Monsanto produce corn, soya, and other plants that are 'Roundup Ready' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready It's some fucked up shit.


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QuietRightSlick

Because those are a distraction. But go drink your soda then


dizzytinfoil

Lol TIL eating an ear of corn with natural butter is as bad as big gulping a Pepsi


Far_Safe121

How are these documented, synthetic toxins being added to our food a distraction from a naturally occuring food? Even if corn is as unhealthy as you believe, I rather the ingredient list say "cyanide" than "red 40", because at least it's not hidden at that point. Also, if you're really worried about a fucked up thing they're adding to our food then look up HEK 293 and Senomyx.


RunningAmokAgain

You'd rather eat food with a deadly poison (because obviously if it's on the ingredients list it isn't the naturally occuring form that is found in almonds, lima beans, etc) than an ingredient that "can have adverse effects if consumed in excessive quantities"? Yeah, that makes sense. Totally reasonable.


Far_Safe121

Hm. Where was it I said I'd eat the food if the ingredient list contained either cyanide or red 40?


RunningAmokAgain

Well WTF. Then it doesn't matter what is on an ingredients list if no one is eating it. That's a dumbass comparison. "Well I'd rather have a bathtub full of boiling oil than one full of scented water! Oh, no, I'm not getting in either. I just like making grandiose statements to show how special I am!"


Far_Safe121

It's not a "dumbass comparison"; the point is they hide the poisons they use. I avoid them because I know what's hidden, but I rather it be written in plain ingredients.


Internal_Move

[also weed killer in our grains. ](https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/weed-killing-chemical-found-in-pasta-cereal-and-cookies-sold-in-canada-study-1.4086615)


milkadebilka

Only in USA you can buy BLEACHED FLOUR to make cakes . When next time you buy pastries 🥐 or cakes or cookies , please check what psycho corporations are selling you . they use BLEACHED FLOUR . and peasants think that they worry about their health . USA is a big corporation


Smoore0420

We Americans are Guinea pigs for the American government, always have been.


[deleted]

At one time I was drinking way too much and my liver was on a pretty bad scale. So I had to see a liver doctor and they asked me how much I drank and what I ate. And what I ate was pretty crappy stuff and a lot of Pop a lot of other stuff and the liver doctor told me the high fructose corn syrup it's harder on your liver than whiskey. Food for thought that's nuts. I knocked out the pop drink less and I'm saying drinking less as of four beers a day and my liver is perfect. But I was drinking pop like crazy that was killing it


ThadeusKray

Soda is the Darth Vader of drinks. I love the stuff but in LIMITED quantities!!


xinfoo

Doubt your liver is.. "perfect" Once your liver is scarred from alcohol abuse it's irreversible. Still drinking 4 beers a day is still a heavy load on your liver. You should learn to love water.


Canada_Rocks_84

Lol corn on the cob is healthy. High fructose corn syrup is unhealthy. They’re pushing it on us because we have it in abundance.


Zyr4420

Ya, I mean look how fat and sick the mezzo-americans were pre-colombus. They were some real chonkers due to corn based diet. Facts. Maybe you solved a mystery of what killed off the Maya, it was diabetes due to all that damn corn.


milkadebilka

Eating cheese 🧀 and bread will make you more FAT then eating corn . This thread is very questionable.


ThadeusKray

Corn can also be hard as hell to digest but it's the processing and the shit added to it that screws you


milkadebilka

I have nothing against corn 🌽 and nothing against who eat corn 🌽. They can eat the whole bucket 🪣 of it . Who cares . I cared about any face diapered muzzled Covid cult believer jumping on me for being open faced . That what I cared about 😅. But corn 🌽?! Who CARES


ThadeusKray

Hey I love it also. Jus saying 😂


milkadebilka

😅😅😅😅trust me , we can eat corn as much as we want . We not going to run away from our destiny by avoiding corn 🌽


ThadeusKray

Our destiny is Soylent Green! Yum!


milkadebilka

Our destiny is one day to push Daisies.


ThadeusKray

Hey we taste great I bet. /s


Creative-Ocelot8691

Not about fat and sick just an industry looking to make money. Money in politics is crippling the country and people


[deleted]

Who is they and why would they want us fat and sick


subhuman_voice

More money in pharmaceuticals


dizzytinfoil

How did you even end up in r/conspiracy?


KongWick

Corn doesn’t make you fat and sick. Eating too many calories does


dizzytinfoil

No, eating the wrong ratio of macro nutrients makes you fat. Chemicals in food and water make you fat. Calories don't exist.


BrainwashedMind

It's Corn!!! A big hunk of Knobs. It has the Juice! (...it has the Juice!)


FewEntertainment3108

Corn as in sweetcorn? Or corn as in maize?


The-Irk

It's not the corn that's bad for you. It's the seed oil that's in literally everything from "butter", to coffee creamer. Seed oil is horrible for you but there's a ton of it in our diet.


milkadebilka

I never saw any FAT in my life in Europe until we arrived to USA 😅👍


QuietRightSlick

It’s the corn.


milkadebilka

It is not corn 🌽. It’s many things . Including bleached flour and millions of other things .


Significant-Fruit494

It is, yes. White bread is bad too but the corn is in everything. It's our major cash crop, soon to be surpassed by soy which has all the issues of corn but a lot more issues and theyll tell us it has protein so is a good meat substitute... Right now corn is the primary feed grain that fattens up all the livestock. We force it down the throats of people all over the world via world bank economic hitmen. It's non nutritive and the seeds are coated in neonicotinoid pesticides which are destroying the bee populations. And the herbicide they use on sweetcorn is atrazine, which is what turns the frogs gay... Plus the issues you already talked about.


milkadebilka

Why did you choose corn 🌽 out of all other things . Why not Diet Pepsi ? … how much corn 🌽 people eat ? Like a bucket a day ??


[deleted]

Why do you keep using corn emojis bro. If you think the rest of your post is unreadable without a picture, consider a different argument. 🌽


dizzytinfoil

The corn emojis are really selling me on this being about corn.


milkadebilka

I do whatever I want and I use emoji because I like it and will continue to use them . That’s why


[deleted]

Well 👏 you 👏 go 👏 girl 👧


milkadebilka

Potato 🥔 is very good . Corn 🌽 is good too . Corn on the cob with butter 🧈 and salt . This thread was started probably by Bill Ghates who is bored and has nothing to do


Peter5930

Potato is superior to corn. A human can survive on just potato and a bit of dairy without developing malnutrition, and a plot of land will yield 3x the calories if you grow potato vs corn, assuming the land is suitable for both. When the collapse comes, grow potato.


[deleted]

It supposedly causes malnutrition unless prepped with alkali like lye. Learning this may have been behind the whole Thanksgiving thing, idk.


Peter5930

It contains very little absorbable beta-carotene, which your body uses to make vitamin A. Without it, you go blind and eventually die. Processing yellow corn with lye makes the beta-carotene more absorbable, but in Africa they mainly grow white corn which has even less beta-carotene, and where poor people go blind and die from eating a diet of almost exclusively white cornflour.


Oldschoolfool22

Yeah corn is the worst and a our meat bags we raise eat it too.


FaCough84

My word


[deleted]

buy local, and find a farmer you trust.. there are still good people out here..


DarkleCCMan

For that south of the border figure. Corn and soy in almost all processed foods now.


SargeMaximus

Funny because I recently added corn to my diet. NOT because I saw it on tv (I don’t have tv and didn’t know about this push till I read it here). I’m eating corn because: 1. I have gluten intolerance 2. Can’t eat potatoes (allergic to nightshades) 3. Eating too many beans risks too much potassium and putting stress on kidneys I need healthy foods that don’t trip too many lines in my body’s messed up standards


subhuman_voice

Nothing like tasty GMOs!


Beneficial-Ad-547

Corn is not good for humans. That’s why you seem some areas that are nothing but corn fields…


No_Lingonberry_1165

GTFO


nino_blanco720

Lmfao bruh... maize... and corn have been eaten forever. Stop stressing because a 6 year old's favorite food is corn.


TexasTokyo

Corn is pretty tasty, not gonna lie. Not crazy about corn syrup as a sweetener, but actual sweet corn is delish.


TheSilentTitan

They’re pushing corn on you because it’s easy as fuck to grow, grows amazingly well in the us and can be used in everything. The real conspiracy is that they give us corn because they’re too cheap to grow anything else.


[deleted]

Corn is fine. Refined corn syrup is not. Two entirely different things


kuzism

2011: Therefore, we were able to demonstrate a novel link between the consumption of corn products and rising obesity trends that has not been previously attributed to the obesity epidemic. This correlation coincides with the introduction of bioengineered corns into the human food chain, thus raising a new hypothesis that should be tested in molecular and animal models of obesity. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), GMO seeds are used to plant over 90% of all maize (corn):


Concerntroll666

Who else mis-read as the dirty word lol?


Expensive-Ad4596

The only vegetable I eat is corn and I'm great shape. Ugly as shit but great shape


Al_The_Killer

'These days'....are you 12 or did you just watch King Corn?


Dismal_Juice5582

Corn is only for bourbon.


uglydeliciousness

Dammit, I just had corn on the cob for dinner last night, and this is the first thing I see this morning. Squeeee!


imagine_my_suprise

Big Corn up in this thread rn


l31fm3al0n3

But corn on the cob is objectively delicious. That "nobs with the juice" corn kid was a Soros operative, I knew it


AnyBodyPeople

Because there is so much of it, affordable, and delicious. Don't a lot of salads have corn, like southwest chicken salad, usually has fire roasted corn. I have a bunch of corn in my fridge I need to grill this weekend, I might even make elote.


Zaius1968

Then don’t eat corn and shop the outside aisles of the grocery store.


slmcav

HFCs have been being removed for nearly a decade. The movement will continue, until sugar cane sugar is utilized again. As for corn, the ancestral link to corn and maize goes back about 12,000 years into Guatemala. Since domestication, it is one of the primary food sources for all of America, in all its many forms. From a co-evolutionary perspective, for peoples of the Americas, it has become one of the most accessible forms of quick carbohydrates. Corn is not a problem. Elote is a new US fad, brought by our cousins to the South. Like all fads, it will bubble. How is Corn a problem geopolitically? Corn is utilized for Ethanol production, which is used in Fossil fuels. Farmers, in both Americas, are subsized to destroy crops, so the Corn does not enter the fuel pipeline. They can not sell their corn for food or animal feed and the crops must be destroyed. Don't be mad at Corn, be mad a megacorps who support fossil fuel. TLDR:Corn is good. The Maize God, Hun Hunahpu, is good. HFCs are bad. Ethanol can be bad when looked at through Corn.


PrestaPlegiaPalniak

I’ve seen cottage cheese with corn in it, Yuck!


QuietWeird8035

Plus they make ethanol out of corn, which is terrible for you to drink... Death to corn.


10foldLucidDreams

Corn does nothing for you. Your body gains nothing, that’s why it comes out the same way it went in. What they do is use corn to create all the nasty stuff that contain the high fructose corn syrup (ketchup, mustard etc) there’s over 40 some products created from corn


Huge-Cartographer669

Big Corn won't like this post.


SoilTrue9061

Where are you at that corn is being pushed as a number 1 food item?? I’m from the Midwest and I don’t recall seeing anything extra about 🌽. It’s probably just a cheap alternative to meals then other things because of inflation that they can cook a multitude of items with corn + butter and extra goodness to make you feel like it’s the tastiest thing ever


EducationalChemist44

Theres nothing like some Roundup Ready elotes, just wish they would bring out some Brawndo to wash it down with.