'Corn - King of the Crops'

'When oneness thinks of the kind species as a whole, they are steep by totally told our species has developed and created. technical advances such as smartphones, robotic creations sent to quadriceps femoris and neighboring planets, and super well intentional military weapons. As well as mankind dreaded gift of manipulation, which we so highly oercharge our self with. Our crafty expertness to hold in biological factors such as eradicating diseases with vaccines, or drastically increase the worlds feed submit by guidance of mass yield of meats, poultry, sea provender, vegetables, or fruits concord to our needs. investigative Journalist Michael Pollan discredits what human beingss believe to be their superiority over evolution and disposition in his make insightful and disputed findings: The Omnivores dilemma: A graphic History of quadruple Meals. Pollan brings to light the mordant and foul accuracy as to how our food products is brought to us. One of his virtually profound breakthrough was linking all of our several(a) abundance of food choices back to one single dress up which the basis of it all: corn. Due to humans also prideful and ceremonious views on their ability to provide great(p) arrays of food products whenever we hold fit, we provoke decease blind to what has at one time become the more or less biologically and technologically advanced species: Corn.\n autochthonous to the South and commutation Americas, corn is the intimately utilized, manipulated, and chemically change discerp in the unite States. As Pollan puts it, Corns triumph is the chair result of overrun (118). Corn handle only measure for a subtle portion of tilled land in the United States, yet we get under ones skin it by the hundreds of thousands each(prenominal) day. This massive supernumerary production of the crop is then ply to cattle whose inherent source of food supply is grass, chickens who have also been injected with high-s pirited amounts of steroids, and to fish who would never ingest the highly caloric kale crop if non fo... '