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During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose fr...

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All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires ...

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In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a M...

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Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dio...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a rumina...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the retur...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of proces...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the f...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals