The Omnivore\'s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

genus Zea Mays, the giant tropical mess too k straightn as establish, was domesticated in Mexico thousands of old age ago where the people named themselves maize Walkers. Michael Pollan states in his book Omnivores quandary: A Natural level of Four Meals that there are some 45,000 items in the amount American supermarket, and more than a quarter of them contain lemon yellow (19). If that number of corn-related products is accurate, and we are indeed, what we eat, and so the majority of Americans are consuming a whole grass of corn!\nThe program CIMMYT that began in the 1980s optimized the corps strains and today the commercial production of genetically circumscribed (GM) maize revolutionize our fashion of eating but also processed corn is a material for bio plastic, batteries, alcohol and differently industrial products. The industrial corn process that the author follows starts in Iowa where the farmers sow the hybrid grains in the soil but they without delay had to buy seeds every parachute; instead of depending upon their plants to reproduce themselves, they now depended on a participation (31), which the author compares as a biological patent. Theres so overmuch corn being large in America today that the price of a improve of corn is around a dollar beneath the sure cost of growing it, which is bang-up for everyone but the corn farmers. The tote up of corn, which is 10 billion bushels today, vastly exceeds the demand. This phenomenon causes a problem to occur people and animals to consume it, peeled products to absorb it and nations to import it.\nwell-nigh 60% of the mountains of corn prominent ever season goes to feed livestock at a Concentrated Animal feeding Operation or otherwise known as a feed lot much(prenominal) as Poky Feeders manufactory cattle farm in Kansas .The author buys a mite called number 534 from a rancher in South Dakota and follows its short living from the feedlot to the slaughterhouse. He ob serve that the life sentence of the animal is being concussion in half to about 5 months because it is fe...