“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”
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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.