Corn Quote by Michael Pollan

“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”

— Michael Pollan

“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.”

— Nickolas Butler

“Your indomitable spirit survived whatever the mainstream culture threw at you, whether it was a malnourishing diet of endless corn as a child or…

— Jewelle Gomez

“One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.”

— Bryant McGill

“No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it,…

— Daniel Quinn

“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce all of…

— Derrick Jensen

“Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food — it also runs deep in our propaganda.”

— Joshua Emmet

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country,…

— David Foster Wallace

“On both sides, they've failed us...of course, we know about the industrialists. Their corn syrup and cheese product. Their factory farms ringed by rivers…

— Robin Sloan

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it…

— Michael Pollan

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.”

— Bill Buford