“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.