From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 09:41:00 MST
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Now, corn, up until 500 years ago was completely unknown to anyone but Native
> Americans and Llamas. Caucasoid, African, Asian and even Australian and
> polynesian people have had no experience with it prior to that.
I'm no agricultural history expert, but weren't there corn riots in
ancient Rome?
-Mike
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