I am way behind the times in reading this book, but after some recent discussion at work decided to give it a shot. The beginning of this book was really interesting—I previously did not know anything about the corn economy, number 2 commodity corn, and the huge range of products that corn is processed to become. He makes a compelling argument that industrial farming ignores millenia of evolution and replaces symbiosis with fossil fuels and the Haber process, and the foray into the more eco...
