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by gHosts 1741 days ago
Except in France they had already eliminated it in the previous century...
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You mean this?

>In the 19th century Roussel started a campaign in France to restrict consumption of maize and eradicated the disease in France

I fail to see how:

1. that's a viable solution in the US, where corn is the dominant grain in many regions

2. it benefits "the elites" to keep growing corn. Surely it's bad for business if your workers' skins were falling off and couldn't work?