re: 75% of grocery store items have corn.

You need to watch this 2007 documentary called King Corn. It's right up your alley.

It's on Netflix Instant if you have it.

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King Corn is a 2007 documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis (directed by Aaron Woolf) as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of corn has had for American society, spotlighting the role of government subsidies in encouraging the huge amount of corn grown.

The film shows how industrialization in corn has all but eliminated the image of the family farm, which is being replaced by larger industrial farms. Cheney and Ellis suggest that this trend reflects a larger industrialization of the North American food system. As was outlined in the film, decisions relating to what crops are grown and how they are grown are based on government manipulated economic considerations rather than their true economic, environmental, or social ramifications. This is demonstrated in the film by the production of high fructose corn syrup, an ingredient found in many cheap food products, such as fast food.

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And yet the EPA and the farmers are forcing the US to pour more taxpayer subsidized corn squeezings into our gas tank. Maybe one of most misguided bunch of lies perpetuated by our Federal government in recent memory. In case anyone wasn't clear on why their grocery bill was so high.

you're so corny

Oh and it's cordobas. Not pesos.

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And yet the EPA and the farmers are forcing the US to pour more taxpayer subsidized corn squeezings into our gas tank. Maybe one of most misguided bunch of lies perpetuated by our Federal government in recent memory. In case anyone wasn't clear on why their grocery bill was so high.

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Ethanol is fricking worthless in our gasoline for 99% of our cars. I still seek out the 93 octane 100% good stuff for my personal vehicle but my company truck gets the yellow gold crap...

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Hard to believe. More than 25% of my store is tampons, beauty products, toilet paper and drug store items

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If it isn't chicken-salad related, Zach just keeps on goin'.

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It's so strange to me our dependence upon this one single product in everything we do in life, and have to wonder what would happen to this country if there was a corn epidemic

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Hey Jack, it's got eggs, chicken and Mayo. Ain't no corn in there.

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hate to be Sheldon Cooper here, but chickens eat corn, lay eggs and mayo has eggs in it...theres technically no way to escape it. your tampons are probably corn free though.