What is corn wet milling? What does it produce, and what is the point of corn wet milling?
Corn Wet Milling: A Step in the Food Process
What’s a CAFO? Is It Worth the Price?
What are CAFOs in agriculture? What does CAFO stand for? Why are they bad for animals? Learn more about how massive-scale farms allow us to produce so much meat—but at a cost we should question.
Factory Farming: Agriculture’s Environmental Impact
What impact does factory farming have on the environment? What is the environmental impact of agriculture? Learn more about the toll that massive scale farming takes on the world, environment, and humans.
What’s Industrial Farming—& What’s Wrong With It?
What’s industrial farming? How does it produce food, and how is it different from normal farming? Learn about industrial farming here.
The History of Corn (Complete Story)
What is the history of corn? Where did corn originate from? How does it differ from maize? Learn the history of corn in this concise summary.
Industrial Food Chain: What is it? Omnivore’s Dilemma
What is the Industrial Food Chain? How does it produce food? How’s the industrial food chain different from organic farming? Learn the key facts from Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Are Humans Omnivores, Herbivores, or Carnivores?
Are humans omnivores, carnivores, or herbivores? Do we eat everything naturally, and are humans omnivores by nature? See what science says about the question.
Corn Subsidies: Explanation and History
Today most of our food comes from corn-based industrial farms. We eat a lot of corn, not just directly as corn, but also when corn is processed into ingredients for processed food (like high fructose corn syrup) and when corn is fed to animals on feedlots. The popularity of corn is a result of corn subsidies. But what are corn subsidies in the United States? How did corn subsidies come about, and why do they still exist? Learn the corn subsidies history here.