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A wet mill: where corn turns into... EVERYTHING |
2. PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: PROCESSED FOODS
"The dream of liberating food from nature is as old as eating." If you look at the label of any number of processed foods, corn will probably turn out to be a key constituent of many processed foods. Corn makes up the sugars and starches, and the fat in a processed good. Companies like General Mills now call processed food a "food system" because of its complexity--and the fact that many people have begun to shy away from processed foods. And corn as food is simple economics: if we can grow the materials cheaply and use them, then why not? Although both the farming end (only 40 cents on a dollar makes it to a farmers pocket, plus they can only grow so much with nature as the enemy) and the consuming end ("Try as we might, each of us can eat only about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year.") are less than perfect, they are still better, some think, than what we started with. But many businesses are trying to get around this:
"When fake sugars and fake fats are joined by fake starches, the food industry will at long last have overcome the dilemma of the fixed stomach: whole meals you can eat as often or as much of as you like, since this food will leave no trace. Meet the ultimate--the utterly elastic!--industrial eater."
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