"Human flesh is made of corn"... tortillas?
- Alex
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min read
For many the best corn tortillas in Tulum, no industrialized corn-flour added, nixtamalized, same you can feel when your teeth piercing through it, you feel it's the right thickness to be called a good tortilla, that you can place a hot stew on top like cochinita pibil and they'll resist in one piece.
Tortillas are the staple diet for many Mexicans, and in other ways for many humans. Just at Tulum and just their brand, they produce in average 1 ton of tortillas every single day, day after day, 365 from 6am to 6pm.
But has anyone taken a min to think where all this corn comes out from? To think about not only gmo's, which apparently has been going on since 1920's, but of the concessions being negotiated by the ruling party and international brands famous for poisoning people at Argentina, to privatize seeds?
Grandfathers share about it, war goes on, long time using words as weapons to take away what belongs to us, humans. Ma' U to'okol to'on "don't let them take it from us" says Mayan poet, songwriter and singer Santos Santiago.
Psalm 23 begins with "the Lord is my shepherd". The Popol Vuh says "human flesh is made of corn". But, what our Constitution says about? Again, if 6 out of 10 adults know not how to read nor write after the 2015 state's yearbook. Laws, and sciences are out there, but who reads about them?
Btw, thank you to all the staff members of this tortilleria :) Love my tacos of local avocado, lime and habanero, which used to be capsicum yucatanicus, but then got changed to capsicum chinense...
Ma' U to'okol to'on.
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