Post #1 Chapter 6 Omnivors Dilemma

There were numerous points and ideas that were brought up in chapter six that I found very interesting and worth discussing in further detail. I really enjoyed the first part that talked about the similarities of producing excess amounts of corn between the early 19th century and now a days. Years ago when there was an excess of corn, we used it to process into very large amounts of alcohol which led to problems of alcoholism and violence in society. Similarly with the excess of corn we have now we are producing it into high fructose corn syrup and adding it to almost every single thing we eat or drink. This also leads to negative and unhealthy outcomes such as diabetes and obesity. This is the clever thing to do because farmers can cheaply produce all of this and then sell it for huge profit because like the book said "when food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it and get fat".