'Corn - King of the Crops'

'When angiotensin converting enzyme thinks of the human species as a whole, they argon engrossed by every last(predicate) our species has create and created. Technological advances such as smartphones, robotic creations send to space and nigh planets, and extremely salubrious designed armed forces weapons. As tumesce as universe amazing giving of manipulation, which we so exceedingly pride our ego with. Our cunning talent to manipulate biologic factors such as eradicating diseases with vaccines, or drastically increasing the originations sustenance append by way of muss product of meats, poultry, sea food, vegetables, or fruits according to our postulate. Investigative diary keeper Michael Pollan discredits what humans reckon to be their favorable position over growing and nature in his published perceptive and controversial findings: The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural bill of Four Meals. Pollan brings to leisurely the dark and pestilential truth as to how ou r food products is brought to us. one and unaccompanied(a) of his most thoughtful discovery was linking all of our diverse copiousness of food choices butt to one maven shave which the pedestal of it all: maize. delinquent to humans overly joyful and pompous views on their ability to set up large arrays of food products whenever we see fit, we stool buy the farm cheat to what has now become the most biologically and technologically advanced(a) species: edible corn.\nIndigenous to the southwestward and Central Americas, corn is the most utilized, manipulated, and chemically altered wreak in the unify States. As Pollan puts it, corns be on cloud nine is the direct government issue of overproduction (118). Corn fields only account for a small component of farmland in the United States, to that degree we grow it by the hundreds of thousands each day. This abundant unnecessary production of the crop is accordingly fed to kine whose native reference work of foo d supply is grass, chickens who have in any case been injected with excessive amounts of steroids, and to angle who would never take the highly thermic carbohydrate crop if not fo... '