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French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of a...more

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A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's ...more

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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gall...more

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Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt...more

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Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbo...more

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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 sam...more

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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-powere...more

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Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutu...more

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Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

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Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of processed food it produces, another ten calories of foss...more

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Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is...more

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Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of c...more