Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan

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  1. 2. If you count all the corn we eat, directly and indirectly, the average American eats a ___ of corn every year.
  2. 8. This is the latest invention to come from the wet mill and labs. This new corn "faction" cant be digested, and since your body can't break it down, it has no calories.
  3. 11. These generate higher profits for General Mills than any other food.
  4. 12. Taxpayers, from 1995 to 2006, spent $56 Billion on corn ______ paid to over 1.5 Million recipients, making it the top crop for federal assistance.
  5. 14. This brand invented the chicken nugget in 1983 at the request of McDonalds, which was looking for a hands-free chicken product.
  6. 16. American farmers produce up to thirteen _______ bushels of corn a year.
  7. 18. Almost all cattle in the feedlot are sick and their corn-based diet makes them sick. Cows should eat ______, and farmers are making them eat grain.
  8. 20. For thousands of years, farmers added this element to their soil for fertilizer even before they knew what it was.
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  1. 1. Before laws in 1977 were made to ban farmers from feeding cattle, which are herbivores, parts of other cattle. People in England began dying of this disease that infects the brain.
  2. 3. Cows have evolved over millions of years to eat _____. This has evolved over that time to be eaten by cows as well.
  3. 4. This is a confined building used to intensively raise and fatten livestock, mostly cattle. At the center of this is a feed mill, where three meals a day for thousands of animals are designed and mixed by a computer.
  4. 5. Corn is broken down into different parts and those parts are put back together in new ways to make the sweetener in your soft drink or starch in your hamburger roll. All this happens in a ________.
  5. 6. Tall, hollow silos where farmers unload their corn harvest each year.
  6. 7. The biggest part of the kernel, filled with carbohydrates.
  7. 9. Over time, corn took over family farms and cows and other animals were pushed out. Cattle are now raised in densely packed animal cities called "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations" or _____.
  8. 10. Millions of bushels are turned into 16 Billion pounds of "High Fructose Corn Syrups" or ____.
  9. 13. Almost half of the national corn crop goes to __________.
  10. 15. More than a quarter of the items in an average American supermarket contain this ingredient.
  11. 17. Corn began as wild grass called ________.
  12. 19. In 2006, with rising fuel prices and fear of global warming, the government was looking for alternatives to gas and oil. They found that this, which is from corn, was their solution.