Upon finishing part one of Pollan's book, I realized something kind of funny. Not just the subject titles... Corn sex? I found that the ongoing theme was that corn and humans are dependant upon each other. The word "dependant" in particular stood out to me. I learned new information about the crop and was exposed to a new, surprisingly accurate point of view. Corn is an American staple and, thanks to the knowledge of old Native Americans, corn is in EVERYTHING, even some of the non-food products we use. It's hard to believe that such a needed crop like corn is unable to be left alone. Corn needs humans in order to grow and be made into products or be used as food. Humans though, need corn to survive, since there is some part of corn in everything we use.
Daniel Tosh (if you don't know who he is already) is a famous comedian. In his stand-up "Completely Serious" Tosh states that it wouldn't matter if all the corn in the mid-west were destroyed because "ethanol is a dream, and a dumb one". It just goes to show that humans actually take corn for granted. The truth is, Daniel Tosh, just as corn needs us to survive, we as humans also depend on the versatile crop we all know as corn.
Thanks Michael Pollan.
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