Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
From Michael Pollan
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
High-quality food is better for your health.
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the end of hormones in meat. I actually think exerting pressure on McDonald's is probably just as important as on the Department of Agriculture.
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.
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture.
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