Benefactors To Man
“In discussing what the Amerindian has acquired, or failed to acquire, at European hands, we must not forget what he has given to Europe, chiefly in the form of cultivated crops. Maize has become in many tropical and warm countries a major food for men and animals. Africa could not live without it The potato is universal in temperate Europe as. a staple food. Both are native American plants, both were first domesticated in prehistoric America. So is tobacco, perhaps the most übiquitous vegetable product known to man. All the Amerindian peoples used it in one form or another. Since Europeans got hold of it it has spread all round the world for good or ill, and has certainly made more fortunes than all the silver of the Indies.”—Dr. J. H. Parry, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 5
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