Amount Quote by Michael Pollan

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital…

— David F. Houston

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if…

— David F. Houston

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually…

— Michael Pollan

“As of now, it takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel to produce a calorie of food energy for humans—somewhere between four and…

— Lierre Keith

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land,…

— Michael Pollan

“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of…

— Carol Deppe

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for…

— Michael Pollan

“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and…

— Michael Pollan

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

— Paul Gigot