ENVS 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-5: Foodborne Illness, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, High Fructose Corn Syrup
7 Oct 2015
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Chapter 3: the elevator yearly crop of corn. After leaving naylor"s farm, pollan visits the grain elevator where he drops of his. Corn as a commodity was invented in chicago in the 1850s before that corn was bought and sold in burlap sacks and you could tell one farmers corn from another. Once it became a commodity the connection it held to the farmers were lost. Now farmers part ways with their corn at their grain elevator and all their corn is blended with everyone else"s can"t connect an individual farmer"s corn with the food it becomes. Subsidies help make sure that the farmers won"t go out of business regardless of the low price of corn. Two major companies involved in answering this: cargill and adm, together they are estimated to buy about a 1/3 of all the corn grown in america.
