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Consumers have two alternatives to the corn-based industrial food chain — Big Organic and traditional organic. Big Industrial Organic is a scaled up version of the traditional organic farm to supply organic food at massive scale to companies like Whole Foods and supermarket chains.
Worried about whether corn makes you gain weight or makes you fat? Short answer: it really can. Learn more about why, and how to avoid gaining weight when eating corn.
What are processed foods? Why do we have them, and why don’t we just eat natural whole foods? Learn about the history here.
You might have seen grain elevators without realizing it. They’re a crucial part of the modern agriculture system. But what are grain elevators, and what do they do?
What is corn wet milling? What does it produce, and what is the point of corn wet milling?
What are CAFOs in agriculture? What does CAFO stand for? Why are they bad for animals? Learn more about how massive-scale farms allow us to produce so much meat—but at a cost we should question.
What impact does factory farming have on the environment? What is the environmental impact of agriculture? Learn more about the toll that massive scale farming takes on the world, environment, and humans.
What’s industrial farming? How does it produce food, and how is it different from normal farming? Learn about industrial farming here.
What is the history of corn? Where did corn originate from? How does it differ from maize? Learn the history of corn in this concise summary.
What is the Industrial Food Chain? How does it produce food? How’s the industrial food chain different from organic farming? Learn the key facts from Omnivore’s Dilemma.