Corn Industry and PLANTS

In Biology today, we talked about plants, and how they are "SO AWESOME!" according to our professor, Dr. Borden. One of the exercises we did was to list some of the things we used this morning that included plant material, and after reading Pollan's book, I learned so much about corn and how it's in everything, even the things we least expect it to be in. Never really thinking about the food I eat, this news was quite shocking to me, but as I thought about it more, the more sense it made.

Many sciences today are utilized towards profits, especially for the food industry. It's ironic however that even though though all they do is to "benefit" humankind a lot of these ideas actually backlash and cause problems. While nitrogen is beneficial to fertilize fields which in return feeds the world, nitrogen can also be used to make mass weapons of distruction. And in excess to fertilize they evaporate to form gases for global warming and also run off into water supplies of cities making it toxic to drink for some.

Like sweeteners, science can be used for good, however in excess it usually brings harm to humanity and with that comes greed as well.

Another interesting thing I learned today was that most nutrients a plant takes up is from the air, and it is estimated that it's composed of more than 90 percent of the plants' growth. Cool eh?