John's Blog: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Christopher Blizzard
· 2 years ago
I loved that book. One little geeky think I loved in it was the fact that you can tell based on the amount of a certain type of carbon in your body what percentage of you is "made of corn." Mind blowing, really. With all the cheeseburgers and chips I've eaten in my life I'm sure I'm more than half corn at this point.
Corn has done a great job of domesticating us.
Mike Beltzner
· 2 years ago
I'd be keen to borrow that one, if you're looking for a place to lend it :)
I'm also quite eager to see King Corn when it hits the local theatres.
nprevs
· 2 years ago
From a health standpoint, I generally feel better about eat corn products (like corn tortillas) rather than white flour products (flour tortillas), because the corn stuff is often a whole food, whereas white flour is essentially sugar, having been stripped of the bran.
Obv corn syrup is a separate nightmare.
John
· 2 years ago
hey nicholas -- you should read the first section -- corn is okay, of course, we just seem to be ingesting an awful lot of the low grade variety...
bigsanford
· 2 years ago
great book! the corn proliferation bit definitely dropped my jaw (which i then closed on some grass-fed beef)...
Johny
· 1 year ago
Read it some while ago, very interesting book. Help you spend some spear time usefull
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Corn has done a great job of domesticating us.
I'm also quite eager to see King Corn when it hits the local theatres.
Obv corn syrup is a separate nightmare.