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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
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There's a particular carbon structure found in corn that is passed on to whatever eats that corn, and whatever eats that animal, and on and on down the food chain. That particular "corn" carbon structure stays intact. So, by examining a persons blood sample or tissue sample, one can see exactly how much of the carbon in their body came from corn. (we are what we eat)
Samples from citizens of the USA net an average of something like 98% "corn" carbon. That's a SCARY over reliance on one food crop, #2 field corn.
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Hmmm. I did an ancestor calculation and I always thought I was up to 6% Mayan,
. Now it looks like I'm surrounded by Amerimayans,
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Maize people
http://www.gmo-safety.eu/en/maize/124.docu.html
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Long ago, in pre-human times, two brothers cleared a patch of virgin forest and made the first field in the wilderness, which provided the creator gods with the material from which they created mankind: maize. This is how Maya mythology explains the origin of maize and so also of mankind. Naturalists and archaeologists are, in their own way, tracing the origins of maize, which continues to pose a few riddles to this day.
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CarloSW2