• astutemural@midwest.social
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    14 hours ago

    God bless the people of the Andean Plateau, who looked at a moderately poisonous tuber that can freaking kill you, and said, “Eh, it’s fine, just don’t eat too many of 'em.”

    A few thousand years of selective breeding and hard work later, we have one of the most important crops in the world.