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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (6)	12/30/2001 6:27:51 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) of 261

Kerry, howdy ... i was just listening to the news read in latin ... by finns ... how is that for foreign affairs -g- ... also reading this on Hernando de Soto, a very bright guy imho - nytimes.com One of the plants from which maize ['corn' in the US] was probably domesticated is called teosinte ... lots on the net regarding it from academics and old-seed aficionados or suppliers ... considered a zacate, a grass, don't know if that's the case scientifically but teosinte is grown for feeding to animals in some places, and there are several [many?] varieties of it ... maize was developed a long long time ago, basic to the culture in most of both Américas and responsible for the rise and fall of civilizations - rise because it made possible the storing of food which made possible the concentration of population, and fall because in some places people seem to have desertified large areas in growing it, then had to move on ... or that is the theory of some to explain olmec and northern maya city decline anyway ..... but i don't think anyone really knows exactly from which plants were developed maize, looks like someone discussing the question here - agron.missouri.edu That whole genetically modified food thing is scarey ... there was a guy in Alberta or Saskatchewan trying to sue Monsanto [? i think] for infecting his canola crop that he had contracted to grow to specifications which were violated when pollen from GM canola miles away landed on his fields ... some of the GM strains are powerfully dominating, take right over, for sure they would wipe out any related species .... it would be a shame to lose all those varieties, and how absurd that mexicanos should be forced to pay for such destruction ... maybe those farmers should compare notes on the 'Commerce Department' a little with BC loggers -g-

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