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America Lacks A Food Culture
- Michael Pollan frames America's food confusion as a cultural failure, not just individual choice.
- He links diet fads, convenience eating, and rising obesity to a lost food culture.
How Corn Took Over US Food
- Pollan shows how corn's yield improvements, fertilizers, and subsidies reshaped US agriculture.
- Those three forces made corn a dominant, cheap input across processed foods.
We Can't Easily Prove We Eat More
- Measuring whether Americans eat more now is harder than it sounds because consumption data rely on flawed self-reporting.
- Policy claims that we simply eat more need careful measurement and context.