ODYR Reading Response Monday

The Omnivores Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 1:
Corn today produces almost everything we see everyday, mainly because it can be used for almost anything and is easy to produce, especially if you have a lot of fields to grow it. One of the key reasons corn is so popular and dominant, is because of number of kettle it can produce, the other reason is because we only cultivate the bigger breed of corn. Because of people corn has been able to be distributed all around the world and is grown everywhere.

Response/Question:
Does the rest of the world use corn in almost everything like the United States, and if not how come?

Chapter 2:
In the last 80 or so years, corn has now become the most grown crop in the United States. They’re has also been new ways of growing corn, with the help of science. Because of science farmers are able to genetically modify corn (GMO) to grow double the amount of kernels it normally would, and be able to grow close to each other. Besides the variety of crops being gown declining the number of farmers have declined as well, in the past majority of Americans were farmers today only 2,000,000 out of 300,000,000 Americans are farmers, that's 0.66% of the population.

Response/Question:
If the average farmer can feed 140 people, but is now able to genetically modify they're corn and have double the amount, how are they still able to feed a lot of Americans?