The Omnivore\'s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Zea Mays, the giant tropical grass also know as feed, was domesticated in Mexico thousands of years ago where the multitude named themselves Corn Walkers. Michael Pollan states in his guard Omnivores Dilemma: A internal History of Four Meals that in that location argon some 45,000 items in the average the Statesn supermarket, and more than a quarter of them temper corn (19). If that number of corn-related products is accurate, and we be indeed, what we eat, then the majority of Americans are consuming a in all fortune of corn!\nThe political program CIMMYT that began in the 1980s optimized the corps strains and now the commercial production of genetically modified (GM) maize reverse our way of eating only if also processed corn is a material for bio plastic, batteries, intoxicant and other industrial products. The industrial corn process that the power follows starts in Iowa where the arouseers sow the cross grains in the soil that they now had to buy seeds any spring; instead of depending upon their plants to regurgitate themselves, they now depended on a corporation (31), which the author compares as a biological patent. Theres so much corn universe grown in America today that the price of a bushel of corn is to the highest degree a dollar below the true cost of maturement it, which is good for everyone but the corn farmers. The supply of corn, which is 10 jillion bushels today, vastly exceeds the demand. This phenomenon causes a problem to find people and animals to take it, new products to absorb it and nations to event it.\nAbout 60% of the mountains of corn grown ever gentle goes to feed livestock at a Concentrated tool Feeding Operation or otherwise known as a feed lot such as click Feeders factory cattle farm in Kansas .The author buys a steer called number 534 from a rancher in South Dakota and follows its nearsighted life from the feedlot to the slaughterhouse. He let out that the lifespan of the animal is be ing cut in half to about 5 months because it is fe...