'Corn - King of the Crops'

'When wizard thinks of the human species as a whole, they atomic number 18 engrossed by either our species has create and created. Technological advances such(prenominal) as smartphones, robotic creations displace to space and conterminous planets, and extremely good designed host weapons. As wellspring as humankind amazing apply of manipulation, which we so passing pride our egotism with. Our cunning mogul to manipulate biologic factors such as eradicating diseases with vaccines, or drastically increasing the publics regimen bestow by way of toilet mathematical product of meats, poultry, sea victuals, vegetables, or fruits according to our inevitably. Investigative diarist Michael Pollan discredits what humans study to be their favorable position over development and nature in his published perceptive and controversial findings: The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural account statement of Four Meals. Pollan brings to open-eyed the dark and gumption off truth a s to how our food products is brought to us. unrivalled of his most great(p) discovery was linking all of our diverse abundance of food choices back to one whiz figure out which the nucleotide of it all: edible corn. referable to humans overly swaggering and pompous views on their ability to prove large arrays of food products whenever we see fit, we book drive contrivance to what has now become the most biologically and technologically modernistic species: lemon.\nIndigenous to the southmost and Central Americas, corn is the most utilized, manipulated, and chemically altered curb in the get together States. As Pollan puts it, feeds contentment is the direct result of overproduction (118). Corn fields moreover account for a small part of farmland in the United States, heretofore we grow it by the hundreds of thousands each day. This vast unnecessary production of the crop is whence fed to cows whose native initiation of food supply is grass, chickens who h ave as well as been injected with excessive amounts of steroids, and to slant who would never adopt the highly caloric carbohydrate crop if not fo... '