Study Questions
Anth 353/Sustn 353
Week 7
Pollan pp. 85-99
1.What happens to most of corn grown in the US? (p85)
2.How is breakfast cereal the prototypical processed food? (93)
It is four cents worth of a commodity of corn transformed into four dollars worth
of processed food.
Turning it into an attractively novel form
Because of branding, packaging, colors, forms, “added vitamins”, minerals
3.From a capitalist point of view, how are the farmer’s field and the human organismless than ideal? (p94)
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