So What’s So Bad About Corn?
23rd November 2007
The Iowa landscape is a patchwork of corn and soybean monocultures, with about as much biodiversity as a bachelor’s refrigerator.
Now there’s an image you won’t get out of your head very soon.
And corn plays a starring, and nefarious, role in a recent book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which author Michael Pollan reveals that, at the molecular level, Americans have ingested so many corn-derived substances that we are essentially walking corn chips.
And what’s so bad about that? (Read the book, by the way; it’s fun.)