In the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan shows us his view about the corn. Corn is a crop, which is highly using today, and there are many products including the ingredients of corn. However, Pollan’s point is trying to help people to notice what they are eating. In the views of economic, corn is an essential factor, which has reshaped American culture, and it turns people into an industrial eaters.
Nowadays, there are many corporations contribute from corn a lot, which provides such a countless benefits for them. The factories will apply various aspects on corn in order to amply utilizing it. Pollan points that, “They provide the pesticide and fertilizer to the farmers; operate most of America’s grain elevators; broker and ship most of the
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Relevantly, corn is a kind of plant that matures instantly; therefore, farmer plants plenty of corn in the period of depression. Thus, American governments establish a policy for farmer to protect them from the price crisis. Pollan writes, “To rescue farmers from the disastrous effects of growing too much food - far more than Americans could afford to buy... Instead of dumping corn onto a weak market, the farmer could take out a loan from the government---using his crop as collateral---that allowed him to store his grain until prices recovered” (49). The corn saves millions of American’s lives during the period of Depression, and the US government changes the policy for the corn, which adequately reveals the economic status of the corn. Nevertheless, with the progress of the times, people will change the rules in order to discover the new and efficient way. Pollan writes, “A coalition of political and business leaders who for various reasons thought America had far too many farmers for her (or at least their) own good” (50). Nowadays, the high technology is capable of using the machines to plant a wide range of yield; therefore, there are less people engage in farm and the owner can get more profits from