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What Ancient Farmers Had Right About Corn That We Ignore | WIRED

Maize is one of the most widely grown grains in the world. The way that much of it is processed has contributed to making millions of people sick over the past 500 years. Dr. Bill Schindler talks about how our modern approach to corn prioritizes convenience and profit over safety and nutrition. Early farmers discovered…

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Maize is one of the most widely grown grains in the world. The way that much of it is processed has contributed to making millions of people sick over the past 500 years. Dr. Bill Schindler talks about how our modern approach to corn prioritizes convenience and profit over safety and nutrition. Early farmers discovered a process called nixtamalization that allows the human body access to corn’s nutrition, but many of the modern ways that corn is delivered to us skips this process.

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What Ancient Farmers Had Right About Corn That We Ignore | WIRED

63 Comments

  1. Michael Mathis

    December 16, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    Would have been nice to get a ‘recipe’ of how to do “Nixtamilization”. Interesting episode.

  2. Just This Guy

    December 16, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Just like his prior video about the meat industry, he makes a bunch of very scientific and provable sounding claims and proceeds to not cite a single source of scientific study to back any of it up. Pellagra appears almost exclusively in the developing world, mostly Sub-Saharan Africa, in people who’s diet consists almost entirely of corn…
    But sure, we should completely change the way we process one of the biggest sources of nutrition in the Western world…
    Regardless of what that would do to the cost and viability of said product.

    This guys whole shpiel is telling you how ancient cultures had food right and we have it wrong because it ties into his personal businesses.

  3. Ivan Travels

    December 16, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Pues ya los gringos aprendieron del nixtamal, ya cuando llega la Navidad y los tamales 🫔😅

  4. Paul Keefer

    December 16, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Why the “Bill Mays” infomercial cadence?

  5. God Left

    December 16, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Is it cheap? Dude, I know you’re right, but I also know that it doesn’t matter.

  6. Daniel Ponce De Leon

    December 16, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    For a colonizer you did good. Maybe next time yall can get an actual indigenous person to talk about something yall ruined for us but hey ill take what i can get.

  7. Rent Orange

    December 16, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    i’m pretty sure they’re called indigenous people, not “ancient farmers”. 😇

    • Rent Orange

      December 16, 2020 at 10:18 pm

      it’s okay. explain how colonizers fatten up their own, and use biopiracy to neglect what aNcIEnT fARmErS have known for years. give the specific people the recognition they deserve.

  8. LLL

    December 16, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Ancient farmers? Wtf you mean indigenous people who btw still exists aka Native Americans in Mexico .

  9. astroboirap

    December 16, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    *this too long, can this doctor make a LIST please? he he*

  10. Shadow Sun

    December 16, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    Duuuude I’m so sick of people “discovering” stuff Native American have been and still doing today. We still do this bruh.

  11. carpo719

    December 16, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    I had no idea…. thank you

  12. ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍʀ. ɪꜱᴀɪᴀʜ ᴅᴇʀɪɴɢᴇʀ;

    December 16, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    As interesting as it sounds, but this yelling made feel like im watching someone trying to sell me something.

  13. Alex Echakowitz

    December 16, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    Don’t call indigenous people “ancient.” They’re still around.

    • Derek Langseth

      December 16, 2020 at 11:50 pm

      he is talking about the people that todays “indigenous” people killed off.

  14. Eur0st4r e320

    December 16, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    Why was my first thought: “ Hey aren’t you that guy that made dishes with weeds?” Lol

  15. George Anderson

    December 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    Can’t find corn nixtamalization recipe on your website.
    Can you tell me where to locate recipe.

  16. Derek Langseth

    December 16, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    early farmers genetically modified corn?

  17. Martijn van der weide

    December 16, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    If it really was the be all and end all we would do it but there must be a flaw hes not stating since i had never heard of it and neither have around 20 people i asked

  18. AwkwardYet

    December 16, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Maize and blue 😉

  19. Cob

    December 17, 2020 at 12:18 am

    This guy has no credibility, why do you keep airing him just in case he might say something informed once in a while?

  20. Yussif Jaber

    December 17, 2020 at 12:51 am

    I’m so confused. So is maize good or bad?
    My understanding is the current processing of maize is bad.
    I need this dumbed down for me. What foods should I be avoiding?

  21. WeaponOfMyDestructio

    December 17, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Then the Spanish came

  22. joe bob 47

    December 17, 2020 at 1:19 am

    I had stopped eating corn due to all the negative aspects of eating the product.
    this is really interesting.

    and the impact for poorer countries is significant in terms of advancing nutrition for them

  23. Ashley Chavez

    December 17, 2020 at 1:20 am

    It’s not “Maze” it’s Mai-es. I’m Spanish so if my pronunciation isn’t what you usually say, it’s your choice to use this pronunciation.

  24. xXSir.CrazeXx

    December 17, 2020 at 1:20 am

    “most food producers likely don’t even know more an option”
    XD well. You just lost all credibility. Have fun with that.

  25. Greg Brady

    December 17, 2020 at 1:24 am

    This guy is crazy about Maize

  26. Singmusic12

    December 17, 2020 at 5:31 am

    naw they aint ancient, theyre just smart yall iamoooo

  27. Brian Williams

    December 17, 2020 at 6:04 am

    If this guy was my doctor I’d ask for assisted suicide. “MAIZE” lmao all the times I heard that in this video made me want pellagra

  28. ROOT LADY

    December 17, 2020 at 6:16 am

    😲

  29. Kelly Jackson

    December 17, 2020 at 6:17 am

    I found his presentation a bit corny tbh

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      December 17, 2020 at 5:32 pm

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    December 17, 2020 at 7:15 am

    Love the russian mcdonalds at the end

  31. Luke Rinderknecht

    December 17, 2020 at 8:07 am

    aMAIZEing 🌽🌽

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    December 17, 2020 at 10:19 am

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    December 17, 2020 at 11:07 am

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  37. Kerfal

    December 17, 2020 at 11:55 am

    “Anti-nutrients”

    Seriously Wired, are you going to tell us about the benefits of crystals next?

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    December 17, 2020 at 12:26 pm

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    December 17, 2020 at 12:51 pm

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  40. horizons

    December 17, 2020 at 12:58 pm

  41. iammaxhailme

    December 17, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    Thanks for (subtly) pointing out that selective breeding IS genetic modification. I have gotten in enough arguments with luddites about that one

  42. emoAnarchist

    December 17, 2020 at 2:32 pm

    you can go to walmart and get a can of hominy for 74 cents. it’s not the food systems that’s out of whack, it’s the consumers.

  43. Hema Bhandari

    December 17, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    Are there countries which follow this process today?

  44. Bearox

    December 17, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    This is a deeper problem than just corn, please people tale care of your food love yourself

  45. dudemanfellabra

    December 17, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    Just say CORN for fucks sake.

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    December 18, 2020 at 5:12 am

    Did anyone else keep thinking Dr Bill Schindler was going to call out another MMA fighter ahead of their Saturday night fight?

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  48. Mason Barber

    December 18, 2020 at 11:05 am

    Corn isn’t in all our food, it’s corn syrup. I seriously doubt the corn syrup will become healthier with this added step. This video is very misleading though because of how he mixes corn and corn syrup interchangeably throughout.

  49. Slavko Pejic

    December 18, 2020 at 3:33 pm

    What made me cringe in this video is the way he tried to imply that ancient people were smarter than people today although they didn’t know about nutrients, germs or niacin… Following that logic we will come to conclusion that earth is flat.

    Those ancient people didn’t have pots that could be put directly on fire but instead they heated limestone in fire and put it inside the pot to heat the food. Making it alkaline by accident. Finding out maize is tastier that way and could be dried, ground and made into dough by just adding water. Later they found out they can make same alkaline result with ash or lye.

    Now we know they had a lucky accident and that balanced diet is very important. If there is enough demand for corn treated that way it will be profitable and widely available, like it already is in parts of the world where it is traditional.

  50. Shalom

    December 19, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Does anyone know if Dr. Bill Schindler is single?

    • Pop Rock

      December 19, 2020 at 2:25 pm

      Come down today and try some corn or we will sacrafice your newborn

  51. Pop Rock

    December 19, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    Come down today and try some corn or we will sacrifice your newborn

  52. Invox

    December 19, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    And here I was thinking I was eaten corn all this time.

  53. DryBonz1

    December 20, 2020 at 10:30 am

    This dude sounds more hostile than informative

  54. William Andrea

    December 20, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    “early farmers were able to genetically modify maize” — This is misleading at best. He’s talking about selective breeding, not genetic engineering.

  55. Jeffrey Conner

    December 23, 2020 at 11:44 am

    I think he is making Kool aide out of corn. Dont drink it…………………………………………….

  56. petrairene

    December 24, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    I recently bought original Mexican tortilla flour. The tortillas were just spectacularly good!

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