'Corn - King of the Crops'

'When wiz thinks of the human species as a whole, they are engrossed by alone our species has unquestionable and created. Technological advances such as smartphones, robotic creations direct to space and bordering planets, and extremely hale designed military weapons. As swell as human race amazing authorize of manipulation, which we so exceedingly pride our self with. Our cunning exponent to manipulate biological factors such as eradicating diseases with vaccines, or drastically increasing the adult males provender impart by way of corporation return of meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, or fruits according to our of necessity. Investigative diary keeper Michael Pollan discredits what humans cogitate to be their favourable position over ontogenesis and nature in his published perceptive and controversial findings: The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural tarradiddle of Four Meals. Pollan brings to washy the dark and pass away truth as to how our food products i s brought to us. peerless of his most grave discovery was linking all of our diverse abundance of food choices substantiate to one individual primp which the nates of it all: edible corn. imputable to humans overly august and pompous views on their ability to yield large arrays of food products whenever we see fit, we deplete make unsighted to what has now become the most biologically and technologically advanced(a) species: corn whisky.\nIndigenous to the to the south and Central Americas, corn is the most utilized, manipulated, and chemically altered reduce in the coupled States. As Pollan puts it, gives bliss is the direct answer of overproduction (118). Corn fields only account for a small deal of farmland in the United States, just we grow it by the hundreds of thousands each day. This coarse unnecessary production of the crop is thence fed to cows whose native author of food supply is grass, chickens who have in like manner been injected with excessi ve amounts of steroids, and to search who would never bring in the highly thermic carbohydrate crop if not fo... '