Corn Paper
Fear of a Corn Planet
Final draft
Robert Ridley
Comp 2
Fear of a Corn Planet
For some time now corn has been an energy source and an enemy to all of America. Unbeknownst to us it has been secretly added to everything a normal American ingests on a daily bases. Products such as Soda pop, Energy bars, Red bull energy drinks, and most processed foods. Though corn does have its practical applications in fuel production as well as industrial uses, just about every food source sold in the normal grocery store has been tainted with some sort of corn product from bread to coffee. Nothing is safe from the monster that once held godly properties for the Aztecs, many other Native Americans and had won the acquiescence of the founding fathers during the settling of the nation. Corn, the menace that continues to make the United States an obese joke to the rest of the world, has truly taken an amazing journey through our culture. In all of its various forms, corn has been consistently added, in semi-secrecy, to the majority of products sold to the everyday consumer.
Years ago farmers were encouraged to grow more and were given government grants to do so. “Most of this comes from the Bush administration wanting to have ethanol to replace twelve percent of oil consumption by 2014” (Collapse movie). This would take all of the arable land and therefore this did not work for the simple fact that net energy would not allow it to be a viable fuel source. So now if one where to go to Iowa or Nebraska all they would see for miles and miles are would fields of corn. In 1979 a comity was formed to see just how efficient ethanol really was David Pimentel, professor emeritus of entomology at Cornell University concluded from this study that it would take more energy to produce ethanol than one could get out of it.”Department of Energy invited Pimentel to chair an advisory committee to look at ethanol as a gasoline
Final draft
Robert Ridley
Comp 2
Fear of a Corn Planet
For some time now corn has been an energy source and an enemy to all of America. Unbeknownst to us it has been secretly added to everything a normal American ingests on a daily bases. Products such as Soda pop, Energy bars, Red bull energy drinks, and most processed foods. Though corn does have its practical applications in fuel production as well as industrial uses, just about every food source sold in the normal grocery store has been tainted with some sort of corn product from bread to coffee. Nothing is safe from the monster that once held godly properties for the Aztecs, many other Native Americans and had won the acquiescence of the founding fathers during the settling of the nation. Corn, the menace that continues to make the United States an obese joke to the rest of the world, has truly taken an amazing journey through our culture. In all of its various forms, corn has been consistently added, in semi-secrecy, to the majority of products sold to the everyday consumer.
Years ago farmers were encouraged to grow more and were given government grants to do so. “Most of this comes from the Bush administration wanting to have ethanol to replace twelve percent of oil consumption by 2014” (Collapse movie). This would take all of the arable land and therefore this did not work for the simple fact that net energy would not allow it to be a viable fuel source. So now if one where to go to Iowa or Nebraska all they would see for miles and miles are would fields of corn. In 1979 a comity was formed to see just how efficient ethanol really was David Pimentel, professor emeritus of entomology at Cornell University concluded from this study that it would take more energy to produce ethanol than one could get out of it.”Department of Energy invited Pimentel to chair an advisory committee to look at ethanol as a gasoline