Omnivore's Dilemma By Micheal Pollan
Chapter 3-From Farm to Factory:Turning bombs into fertilizer
Agribusiness has given farmers tools and fertilizers to make corn more sccessful. The government gave farmers the choice to buy nitrogen so that itwould be used in the fertilizer farmers use on their crops.This changed things for farming because it made things much easier but the corn syarted to hav all types of chemicals in it .
Chapter 4-The grain Elevator: Food On Te Ground
"One day in spring I visited the grain elevator in Farnhamville Iowa , that's where George naylor hauls his corn each october. Grain elevators are tall and are the tallest buildings in this part of Iowa."
Chapter 5-The Feedlot-Turning corn into meat: city of cows
I wanted to see HOW a cow came from a farm and was turned into the meat that would end up in our stomach so I bought one. I noticed how cow #534 was treated and that made me think more about eating meat. The cows were being forced to eat corn which was not part of their diet. By feeding these cows corn they gained weight which created more meat for us, but it made the cows sick.
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