But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar.
So that's us: processed corn, walking.
Tag: food corn industrial-food western-diet
So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.
Michael PollanTag: food industry cows oil corn cattle factory-farms petroleum
Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.
Rex StoutTag: corn nero-wolfe
This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.
Anthony LiccioneTag: wisdom listen teach learn ears corn
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.
Michael PollanTag: fruit american subsidies corn calories farmers vegetables fresh soybeans fats fruits-and-vegetables soy sweeteners
We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.
Richard PuzTag: growing-up growing living-life farming corn
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