This sounds like a setup for a new book which bases it's first chapter
on CORN and CHICKEN MCNUGGETS.

And the New Book (not really brand new) is:

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Paperback)

by Michael Pollan (Author)

Key Phrases: industrial food chain, killing cones, steer number, George
Naylor, Joel Salatin, General Mills (more...)

Exerpt from a book review.....

....You'll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.

Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist:
"The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural
world." All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and
fungi. "[E]ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out of... well,
precisely what I don't know offhand, but ultimately some sort of
formerly living creature, i.e., a species. We haven't yet begun to
synthesize our foods from petroleum, at least not directly."

Pollan's narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to
their ur-species. He starts with a McDonald's lunch, which he and his
family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a
cornfield in Iowa.

Corn feeds the steer that turns into the burgers, becomes the oil that
cooks the fries and the syrup that sweetens the shakes and the sodas,
and makes up 13 of the 38 ingredients (yikes) in the Chicken
McNuggets.Indeed, one of the many eye-openers in the book is the
prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a
supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn.

Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and
looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of
everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides
Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.

Later, Pollan prepares a dinner with items from Whole Foods,
investigating the flaws in the world of "big organic"; cooks a meal with
ingredients from a small, utopian Virginia farm; and assembles a feast
from things he's foraged and hunted.This may sound earnest, but Pollan
isn't preachy: he's too thoughtful a writer, and too dogged a
researcher, to let ideology take over.

He's also funny and adventurous. He bounces around on an old
International Harvester tractor, gets down on his belly to examine a
pasture from a cow's-eye view, shoots a wild pig and otherwise throws
himself into the making of his meals. I'm not convinced I'd want to go
hunting with Pollan, but I'm sure I'd enjoy having dinner with him. Just
as long as we could eat at a table, not in a Toyota.

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You can read parts of the book online at the Amazon.com website.

Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/yrp9t3

Long URL below:

http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=
pd_bbs_1/102-1684018-2132957?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190419375&sr=1-1

Every person I know that has died has eaten corn at one point in time or
another.

I used to eat corn every now and then, until I realized the correlation
between corn and depression, cancer and poor taste in music.

Its not the corn itself, you know, the problem is the fact that people cook
it. If you eat the corn raw you'll be ok.

Just my .02 on a Friday night.