All corn diet turns hamsters into 'crazed cannibals': Study
France-based researchers have reported that a diet of only maize is turning wild hamsters in corn fields into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring. The reason being the unbalanced diet leaves rodents starving and deficient in vitamin B3. However, in a set of experiments when corn-based diets enriched with B3 were provided, hamsters didn't eat their offspring.