Corn Is the New Fast Food

Well, duh. Since the movies Fast Food Nation (and the book it was based on) and Super Size Me raised the ridiculously obvious point that we are what we eat (and what we eat is often crap), the American food chain has gone under the microscope macroscope. The most recent example would be Michael Pollan's recent success, The Omnivore's Dilemma, a book that eloquently and exhaustively traces three American food chains.

The first of those food chains was the mainstream industrial one (organic agriculture and hunting/gathering being the other two). Turns out the lifeblood pumping through our nation's veins isn't blood at all—it's corn. So you already knew that. Well, in case you'd like to know more, there will soon be a movie exposing all: King Corn looks to be the big screen answer to The Omnivore's Dilemma.