A Conversation with Don B. about Maize
Don B. lives in a village about ten miles from Guanajuato in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico. He began working the fields at age 8 and still tends…
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With respect to GM maize: “Indigenous communities in Mexico, after lengthy discussions, are taking action. At times their moves are surprising: for instance they have decided that contaminated maize should…
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How do you manage? puzzles this author. What could show more decisively how cooking habits have changed? A hundred years ago a small army of home economists, salespeople, and cookbook…
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