I recently headed out to the supermarket; check the labels on about 15 to 20 products. All the products contained some sort of corn sweetener ingredient. Corn is being fed to livestock: dairy cows, pigs, chicken and even salmon at all farms nationwide. Corn is cheaper, and less of a hassle to retrieve animals from the fields. All the available, soft drinks and juices for kids contain corn byproducts.
Part one, Industrial: corn, is about the evolution of the industrial food chain and how corn is the driving force of it all. There are three key aspects to take away from this section. The first aspect is that all food in the supermarket, sometimes including other produce, can be traced back to a particular plant, corn. Corn is feed to steers, pigs, chickens and other animals that provide the meat in our diet in addition to cattle that produces most of the dairy we consume from the supermarket. Corn is in everything from the meats at the butcher
Industrial Corn May Be Linked to America’s Obesity Epidemic Industrial Corn May Be Linked to America’s Obesity Epidemic Imagine for a moment and picture Americans as huge walking genetically modified stalks of corn. Every corn stalk contains various ears of corn hanging as limbs. Each ear of corn is filled with abundant kernels. Each kernel filled with starch. Well, welcome to the new bodies of Americans, because it has been said “you are what you eat.” With the mass yield production of industrial corn, which has been genetically modified, corn can be found in virtually every food item in the local American grocery store.
Nevertheless, if we studied the American industry, we would find that there is one basic ingredient that seems to be in just about everything: - corn. Our food industry here in America is strongly based on corn, and as the author points out, it is used in countless forms, from being fed to livestock, to being used in processed items such as yogurt or beer. Mr. Pollan also explains just how corn came to govern the American markets and industrial food chain due to a number of factors. He also pays a visit to George Naylor’s farm in
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Of the eighty million acres of corn in the United States only about 380,000 acres of it is sweet corn. The world’s population is around seven billion. 5) Field corn, also called dent corn, is used to make many foodstuffs. Examples of these are cereals, tortillas, cornmeal, and cornbread. Field corn is used to make High Fructose corn syrup, which is found in many different, often unhealthy, foods such as soda and icecream.
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aOrganic compounds as Fuels Intro – chemistry involved with the diff. and same of diesel and corn biodiesel./used “The fuel of our future is going to come from fruit like that sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented.” – Henry Ford (Winn. 2002) Those words, in which capture the excitement and potential surrounding biofuels today, were spoken in 1925 by the one and only Henry Ford. Nearly a century ago from today, the ford Model-T (collectively known as Tin Lizzie) was designed and manufactured to run on either petrol or a corn-based fuel called ethanol.
For me, the most interesting and disappointing idea brought to light is corn; which, when first introduced in Mexico, was known as maize. Gradual changes was the main focus, because it is important to note that these things occurred over time and not all at once, which led us to the society we live in today, a mass produced, artificial, technological machine. Throughout the book, Standage uses many different points to help the reader realize that food as changed us all, and as food morphs, we do as well. In his second chapter, he explores farmers’ heights as compared to that of hunter-gatherers in the past. He exclaims, “Skeletal evidence from Greece and Turkey suggests that at the end of the last ice age, around 14,000 years ago, the average height of hunter-gatherers was five feet nine inches for men and five feet five inches for women.
Do Corn Subsidies Lead To Obesity? Commodity corn has become a staple crop here in the United States food and agricultural system. “When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it and get fat”(Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan). When Michael Pollan says this he is generally referring to fast food eateries such as McDonalds which use government subsidised corn to make most of their products, including the sweeteners in soda. There are over 14,000 McDonald’s locations in America alone and they made over 8.5 Billion dollars in 2013 alone.