To Industrial Corn, We're Addicted!

Reader Contribution by Bill Hakanson
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 “A low-quality meat and sweetener, a shoddy alternative car fuel, an agrarian crisis visited upon our neighbor to the south … that’s more or less the corn crop,” says Tom Philpott, Grist food editor.

For the complete article, see Why are we propping up corn production again?

The crop in the foreground of this photo is soybeans. Corn is the crop seen on the borders of the soybean patch. It’s a beautiful sight repeated over and over again up here in northwest Pennsylvania.

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