ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Week 6: Omnivore&#039;s Dilemma, pp. 1-184 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/taxonomy/term/19/0 en ARCHIVE - Christina Weeks - week 6 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/christina-weeks-week-6 <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">When I First started reading <em>Omnivore’s Dilemma</em> I was uninterested. I thought if anyone is going to talk about the food humans eat for an entire book why would he choose corn for a whole third of it? …very boring. But after a few pages into it I became completely sucked in. I had never realized how much corn is involved in our daily consumption of food, especially when considering all of corns derivatives. After reading Pollan the amount of corn that we use seemed obvious corn starch, high fructose corn syrup, starch, MSG, and much more. It makes me wonder how many people are make the connection of the amount of products corn is used in. Most interesting to me was when Pollan compared America, a “wheat people,” to Mexico, a “corn people”:</font></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/christina-weeks-week-6">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/christina-weeks-week-6#comment Week 6: Omnivore's Dilemma, pp. 1-184 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:21:46 -0800 weechr04 349 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter