Yuriria Iturriaga / III: Not just bread...

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Once the process has been analyzed of self-construction of the human, as a direct result of food, whose trigger was those that provide slow sugars to the brain and, specifically, to the neurons that command muscle movement. And, resuming the irreversible principle that it is practice that builds consciousness (Karl Marx), we move on to the destructive effects (12/5/25) of the substitution and alteration of basic cereals that contain virtuous sugars for the human race, such as rice, corn, farinaceous tubers and Triticum, in order to verify that current humanity has been substituting, based on vicious technologies that they call progress, foodstuffs that have been sickening and domesticating a majority of humanity, whose only possibility of satisfying hunger is in ingesting food substitutes, edibles (which are eaten and satisfy hunger but do not feed). The logic of the capitalist economic system is based on profit over all other norms that favor the human aspect of humanity, such as a healthy life and (although some readers may smile) the happiness that it includes, and part of the foods that nourish the brain, whose development, as we said, involves slow sugars, now extinct. Both the body and its capacities include the purity of water, air, and the balance of nature.

In other words, there is no better example of the transformation of the world's societies, of their organization in the distribution of labor and material resources to satisfy basic needs, than to reveal the importance of the global capital invested in what we eat (whether it is food or not). And, as stated in the previous installment, the largest invested and circulating capital on our planet is that of the food industry (and, lest we forget, we repeat: followed by the lethal weapons industry, drug production and trafficking, and human trafficking in its various forms).

The war in Gaza shows us how the most effective weapon is starving populations, if their thugs haven't realized this before. Therefore, a country like ours, Mexico, must be mentally poisoned from childhood, until it takes over the rungs of the most abject ambition of its capitalist class.

But, apparently, a paradigm shift is beginning to take place in today's Mexico, and although we are indeed at the pinnacle and the navel of capitalism, we can attempt, as a single invincible machine, to change the food paradigm for our population and ourselves: with a strategy of recovering the labor force expelled from the North to reintegrate it into its lands through fair distributions among communities and families, through explicit consensus, and with a willingness to seriously fulfill the promises of the new distribution of the country among its people.

We must also be consistent, and not just because we have a cadre of famous university and technological graduates, hand over the management of the Mexican people to them. Someone must lead with wisdom and prudence, and no one better than the people themselves to recover their knowledge and traditions. And, with progress consistent with traditions, we must improve what can be improved and, above all, improve our own productive status, which the legal statute has already achieved.

We can't wait a day, not a single hour. This is the time to restore the land and water distribution systems, their virtuous allocation (that is, in accordance with the virtue and ethics of Mexican Humanism). Government support, especially legal support, must be in writing and clearly presented to countless generations of happy peasants.

In return, farmers will give us healthy food, and the Mexican government will stop dirtying its hands distributing chemical fertilizers and insecticides.

For once in the history of Mexico, let the middle and upper classes stop imposing traditional knowledge with the self-sufficiency and arrogance of the Spanish conquistadors. This is the time to truly recover our ancestors, with the return of those we expelled out of arrogance, replacing their labor with imported technologies.

It's not about going back or returning to an era; it's about taking a virtuous leap forward into the 21st century. It's about learning from those whose culture and knowledge have always been disdained. Even if our guilty conscience has drawn us—through the mediation of a foreign artist, Frida Kahlo—to the beauty of the material products of her hands.

So let's take from their oral traditions and ancient practices what 21st-century science affirms: their pre-Hispanic farming systems were better than those that the technology of more than 20 centuries has sought to impose on the entire world.

Don't let them be expelled! Let them mourn for them in the north as they return to their lands and enrich all their people!

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