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A_Wanderer said:It has been argued that the farm subsidies on corn that distort the market are a good part of the problem.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
I heard this author on NPR awhile back
One of the many eye-openers in the book is the prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn. Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.