Corn

Have you ever been told that supermarkets offer more variety, well, it's just a whole lot of corn. Chicken nuggets are made of chicken (that ate corn) and breaded in corn flower. In the USA alone there is enough corn grown each year to feed the world but instead it is all being turned into ethonal and cattle feed and chicken feed when those animals aren't even supposed to eat corn.

Corn is also being used for stuff like High Fructose Corn Syrup which you can find in just about any condiment and every soda and in stuff that you wouldn't expect like the other day my mom got my brother a wenches lemonade and the first ingreatient was carbonated water and the second was HFCS and the third was lemon juice and don't forget the artificial flavors and food coloring along with more corn syrup.

Scientist recently figured out a way to gauge what type of plant dominated your diet and the amaricans have more corn in their diet than any other country in the world. In the USA only ten percent of all the corn grown is eaten as normal corn while eighty percent is used for cattle fish and poultry production, the remaining ten percent is turned into ethanol.

The breakdown of usage of the 12.1 billion bushel 2008. U.S. maize crop was as follows, according to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report by the USDA.
- 5,250 million bu. - livestock feed
- 3,650 million bu. - ethanol production
- 1,850 million bu. - exports
- 943 million bu. - production of starch, corn oil, sweeteners
- 327 million bu. - human consumption - grits, corn flour, corn meal, beverage alcohol

"If we are what we eat, Americans are corn and soy" Says a article in CNN's health website.

sources:
http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/index.shtml
www.wikipedia.com