Corn and its byproducts easily form a majority of my diet. Because my family farms corn, this is something I have known for the majority of my life, however, reading this text has informed me how true this fact is. This book details the many unexpected ways in which corn has infiltrated our diet, largely without our knowledge. Because corn can be so easily grown, broken down and processed, it has been facile to center our diet around it. Corn is also useful as feed for many meat animals- it is used for cattle, despite being less optimal as feed than grass and other roughage (Pollan 2006). Chickens and hogs can be fed a corn based diet without adverse health effects, and often are. Even at a smaller level, such as my family’s farm, we supplement
