CHAPTER 1
when you walk into the supermarket, everything around you cam from corn. from the produce and meat, to even cleansers and toothpaste. everything we eat was at some point processed corn. and if we are what we eat than america is processed corn. perhaps the corn rather ingeniously conquered and now dominates us? none the less, america is the only country where you need expert help to ascertain the origins of your food.
americans thrive off "corn" that, since it was originally discovered, has evolved into something entirely different, and is essentially the original capitalist. because it cant multiply alone do to a freakish genetic modification, it depends on humans to plant it and by making its self appealing to humans it was essentially able to take over. since it is so easy to hybrid and quick to modify corn has become something entirely different from the zea maze that was first found. since corn grew to american capitalist standards, like solders, able to withstand the massive amounts of chemicals poured upon it, fast and far, genetically modified or chemically enhanced corn makes up most of what america eats.
CHAPTER 2
americas farm country is no longer green pastures and grazing animals, but rather miles and miles of enhanced corn. corn that isn't even able to feed the families who live on the farms and grow the corn. they farm tons of corn, kept healthy by over fertilization with synthetic nitrogen to insure crops. and even so the farmers can barely live off the money they make. on top of that the synthetic nitrogen discovered by Fritz Haber in 1909, invariably chancing history, then runs off into the river which runs into a larger river which serves as the drinking water for the next town. Haber came up with these synthetic nitrogen not a moment too soon, for scientists had already come to realize that nitrogen limited and once they were gone the human race would come to a halt. before humans could manufacture it the amount of nitrogen in the soil limited the amount of corn that could be grown but science squashed that, and now corn runs ramped.
CHAPTER 3
due to government policies and big corporations, the farmers who grow and harvest the corn not only cant eat it but make hardly enough profit off it to sustain their families. the only way Naylor is able to have any money is by using his ancient machinery. and the corn their growing isn't really corn, in-fact it's not even called corn. its corn 2. a generic, cheep and highly over produced commodity that becomes virtually everything americans consume. and the big corporations like Cargill, who controls most of this corn train, wont let outsiders near the corn to "protect it."
or themselves?
CHAPTER 4
cows. hybrid to have all the qualities they need to make it on the feedlot. are for a few short months of their unnaturally short lives, fed on what they should be, grass. as for the rest of their lives which had diminished from 4-5 then 2-3 years old and now stands at a miniscule 14-16 months. to go from 80 lbs to 1,100 lbs, in just this short matter of months, seems impossible. but not when they are fed on a steady diet of excess corn, fat and protein supplements, and antibiotics. when naturally they have evolved to eat grass and only grass and grass has evolved to accommodate them as well. and while animals on a farm creates a closed ecological loop, you rarely find animals on farms anymore, creating two new problems one of which; feedlot pollution, is never remedied. so these cows born to be eaten spend their few months of life eating things they shouldn't be eating (including other dead cows and things no herbivore should be eating) and living in their own and their neighbors filth. pumped full of antibiotics to keep them all from drooping dead in these hellish conditions, most cows on feedlots are still sick in some way, anyway if their not sick, their certainly not happy. not only are cows not meant to eat corn, but humans really shouldn't be eating corn-fed beef either. some scientists say that its not americas red meat based diet that makes us so unhealthy rather our corn fed beef diet which doesn't have the healthy qualities that a healthily raised on grass cow's beef would have.
CHAPTER 5
not only things that can obviously come from corn, come from corn. scientists have found ways to go into the genetic makeup of the corn and turn it into something els entirely, thus humans have taken control of nature in another way. once you get to this point you can create nearly any food you can imagine. and you can replace all those real things in the supermarkets with corn synthesized to taste like the food you think your eating, thus saving corporations money because of the over abundance of corn in america.
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