A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
I’ve been biting my tongue (or restraining my fingers) for months now. But yesterday an article in the New York Times once again took the protests in Mexico City against the price of tortillas as symptomatic of the unrest that is likely to occur worldwide as the result of biofuels, rising maize prices, etc. You [...]
So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM crops; the economics of biofuel; and how American corn politics affects other parts of the world. And of these other parts of the world, few [...]
Read: Corn (Maize) Production and Importation in Contemporary Mexico
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