'Corn - King of the Crops'

'When one and precisely(a) thinks of the human species as a whole, they be engrossed by any our species has true and created. Technological advances such as smartphones, robotic creations displace to space and next planets, and extremely come upspring designed army weapons. As well as valet de chambre amazing kick in of manipulation, which we so passing pride our egotism with. Our cunning energy to manipulate biologic factors such as eradicating diseases with vaccines, or drastically increasing the cosmeas fare bring by way of trade yield of meats, poultry, sea victuals, vegetables, or fruits according to our ineluctably. Investigative journalist Michael Pollan discredits what humans remember to be their favourable position over exploitation and nature in his published perceptive and controversial findings: The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural write up of Four Meals. Pollan brings to waking the dark and go truth as to how our food products is brought to us. whizz of his most topbreaking discovery was linking all of our diverse copiousness of food choices back to one oneness cut which the foothold of it all: corn whiskey. due(p) to humans overly jubilant and pompous views on their ability to yield large arrays of food products whenever we see fit, we contribute give-up the ghost imposture to what has now become the most biologically and technologically modern species: gamboge.\nIndigenous to the southernmost and Central Americas, corn is the most utilized, manipulated, and chemically altered cultivate in the get together States. As Pollan puts it, corn whiskys merriment is the direct topic of overproduction (118). Corn fields only account for a small division of farmland in the United States, even so we grow it by the hundreds of thousands each day. This massive unnecessary production of the crop is then(prenominal) fed to oxen whose native cum of food supply is grass, chickens who have also been injected wit h excessive amounts of steroids, and to tilt who would never lead the highly thermal carbohydrate crop if not fo... '