The Corn King

The Corn King

            It is truly amazing on how much we rely on one crop that basically does nothing for the human body or the animals for meat. President Bush signed a farm bill to help the farmers out on the crop that costs more than it is actually worth. The government is making several different things with corn which makes the prices sky rocket everywhere else. Everything that we eat today basically has so kind of corn or corn byproducts in it. This is making the people prone to obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Why do we have to pay more when corn is the cheapest commodity and loses money?

            With as many overweight Americans we need to come to a stand point and make life changing decisions for ourselves and our future to make better decisions by not letting our government poison our bodies with this wasteful product that does nothing but make us sick! The University of Minnesota ran a study on how the corn is made into high-fructose corn syrup is metabolized different than other sugars making it harmful.  With corn you have to treat it with more fertilizers and pesticides than any other food making the run off of this into our ground water and then into rivers harming the water making it toxic. If we didn’t spend so much money on this corn bill for farmers we wouldn’t be so much in debt. In order to keep corn well fed and safe from predators with chemicals that poisons our water and deepens our dependence on foreign oil. Without the bill to save corn crops we would probably be able to do everything here ourselves instead of relying on other countries to do it for us! It would also be cheaper for us!

Works Cited

            Pollan, Michael. When a Crop Becomes King. New York Times. 19 July 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/opinon/when-a-crop-becomes-king.html.