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[–] miz@hexbear.net 40 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

these same China Bad posters will laud Henry Wickham with no sense of contradiction, because it's really about western chauvinism and the racial hierarchy

It was the greatest act of biopiracy of the 19th century, and maybe in history. In 1876, Henry Wickham emerged from the Amazon jungle with 70,000 stolen rubber seeds. Under absolute secrecy, he tucked the precious cargo in the hold of a steamship and sailed for England.

https://en.natopedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham_(explorer)

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

And also smuggling of tea saplings and silkworms from China.

[–] SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 25 points 21 hours ago

Coffee out of Arabia.