Jamie Metzl
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Agriculture is the most aggressive form of biotechnology.
GMOs are nothing compared.
I mean, GMOs are this.
Big strawberries?
Come on, pal.
This used to be corn.
Now look at it.
No, but the radicalness of agriculture, that is the big biotech story.
And so
No wonder corn was so essential because it was the major source of power and calories and just group expansion.
Once you could grow corn, you could feed a lot of people.
And that meant you could have all kinds.
You could have cultural growth.
You could have armies that could raid other people.
You could do all sorts of things.
And so it wasn't just that corn was important.
It was that corn became a god in the picture.
In the book, I have a picture of the Mayan corn god.
And it's like a corn with the ears pulled down.
And there's the little face of this god.