Our hypothesis is that in the United States it's less expensive to sweeten things than it is elsewhere in the world, and part of that is because of high fructose corn syrup that we'll talk about later in the class.

我们假设,在美国,让食物变甜的成本比在其他国家要低,其中一部分是因为高果糖玉米糖浆,稍后我们会讲一下这个糖浆问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选