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The other main intent of Pollan is bring into focus how corn plant has came to dominate majority of the food choices in the American diet, and so allocates sizable portion of the book (close to 7 chapters) discussing about it.... Although, corn is a benign plant, which is grown in large numbers throughout America and consumed directly in minimal quantities, it is actively used in the production of various food items, food additives, preservatives, etc.... That is, after corn is produced, it is milled or refined or recompounded, and then it could “become any number of things, from ethanol for the gas tank to dozens of edible, if not nutritious, products, like the thickener in a milkshake, the hydrogenated oil in margarine, the modified cornstarch,…the ubiquitous sweetener known as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)....
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The First Draft of the Research Paper, Omnivore's Dilemma (industrial corn) Introduction The book, “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” is an enlightening literary piece by Michael Pollan.... The book is divided into three neat parts, bearing the titles, ‘industrial corn', ‘Pastoral Grass' and ‘Personal the Forest'.... ‘industrial corn' is the first part of the book and it contains seven chapters.... The first portion of the book, ‘industrial corn' is a thorough discussion on the process how the corn plant has actually dominated the entire course of American diet achieved through a proper blend of factors pertaining to biology, politics and culture....
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Pollan also approaches this journey of emphasizing on the implication of food to omnivores by examining corn.... He explains the origin of corn and the use of chemical fertilizers (Pollan, 15).... The Omnivore's Dilemma states that ingredients of industrial foods contains corn, which is broken down to simple molecules and matter that are combined with other substances to come up with a done produce.... It has been established that corn and oil is the heart of the food industry....
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It is identified in the book that the modern food industry is seen relying immensely on increased corn production.... In fact, the rate of corn consumption is so markedly high in America that if humans had to become what they ate, 99.... 9 per cent Americans today would have been corn.... Taking the example of corn, Pollan makes an effort to draw the audiences' attention towards the unusually high consumption of corn all across the West and particularly America....
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Many people believe that all the processed food products are made of corn, which may not be the case because several ingredients are added to the main materials (Pollan, 2006).... There is a distinction between the organic and industrial products in terms of their manufacturing processes and nutrient contents.... Organic and industrial food products have several distinguishing factors.... industrial food refers to processed foodstuffs; several ingredients have been mixed....
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This paper purports to analyze an argument that Michael Pollan in his book “The Omnivore's Dilemma” advances concerning the element of corn, and aims to counter it.... hellip; The researcher of this paper shall discuss the Pollan's suggestion that food containing corn is not a good option, because it is not only more expensive to provide due to storage and transportation, but also poses more economic constraints on the society which go unnoticed....
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The other main intent of Pollan is bringing into focus how corn plant has come to dominate the majority of the food choices in the American diet, and so allocates the sizable portion of the book (close to 7 chapters) discussing it.... To learn for himself, and also to inform the readers about the production processes and thereby about food choices, Pollan follows the food chains of the three major food categories, which provide us the food– industrial food, organic food, and foraging food....
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The book is divided into three neat parts, bearing the titles, 'industrial corn', 'Pastoral Grass' and 'Personal the Forest'.... 'industrial corn' is the first part of the book and it contains seven chapters.... The first portion of the book, 'industrial corn' is a thorough discussion on the process of how the corn plant has actually dominated the entire course of American diet achieved through a proper blend of factors pertaining to biology, politics, and culture....
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