Thursday, November 13, 2008

Fast Food Made Up Mostly of Corn

If you haven't seen King Corn, this article from National Geographic might inspire you, Fast Food Made Up Mostly of Corn.

"A chemical analysis of popular fast foods reveals that some form of the grain appears as a main ingredient in most items—especially beef. The researchers examined the molecular makeup of hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and french fries purchased from three fast food chains in six U.S. cities. 'Out of the hundreds of meals that we bought, there were only 12 servings of anything that did not go straight back to a corn source,' said study lead author Hope Jahren, a geobiologist at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu."

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