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This 3 page paper discusses the wide-spread use of corn and the use of synthetic nitrogen to grow it. The paper argues that it’s time to get back to real food grown by real farmers, not the chemically-laden stuff coming from the factory farms of the agribusiness industry. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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evaluates the statement "Corn is an important crop but we need more than just that one product" in light of two articles, one by Michael Pollan entitled "Whats eating America"
and the other called "Is a food revolution now in season?" by Andrew Martin. Discussion Martin quotes a lot of Pollans work, so well start with Mr. Pollans article. Pollan
points out that despite what seems to be great diversity in American supermarkets is not true variety, since the store "rests on a remarkably narrow biological foundation: corn" (2006, p.
96). Its not simply that the meat we buy comes from animals fed on corn; nor is it just that corn is found in flour, oil and shortening as well
as providing the "glycerides and coloring in the processed foods; its not just sweetening the soft drinks or lending a shine to the magazine cover over by the checkout" (Pollan,
2006, p. 96). The materials used to construct the supermarket itself are "in no small measure a manifestation of corn" (Pollan, 2006, p. 96).
Of the 45,000 items stocked by the average supermarket, more than 25% of them contain corn (Pollan, 2006). Despite this, the food industry has managed to persuade consumers that
they are actually given a wide variety, rather than acknowledging that what theyre actually buying are "clever rearrangements of molecules extracted from the same plant" (Pollan, 2006, p. 96). Logic
would suggest that getting such a large amount of our nutrients from only one source is not as good for us as eating a wide variety of foodstuffs.
In addition, Pollan notes that things changed dramatically after World War II, when the government found itself with a huge surplus of ammonium nitrate (2006).
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