"... The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn. Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the and the , the and the and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically come from Holsteins that spend their working lives indoors tethered to machines, eating corn. ... ... Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical names it travels under, corn is what you will find."
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(corn in U.S. English & Canadian English) is the agriculturally domesticated species Zea mays. In the year 2020, the from Z. mays was by weight the world’s leading grain, above and .
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