... dominance of corn is overwhelming- nearly 25% of supermarket stuffs originates from corn. Pollan also tracks a calf from its starting point in South Dakota to its miserable ending in a Kansas slaughterhouse. Pollan exposes the horrifying conditions of many of these industrial meat processing centers. One must also not forget that many of these Farm Bill protected companies employ cheap labor in ... ...

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... found. Before Pollan is subjected to Polyface Farm, he was expecting something much different. Through many readings and visits to other slaughterhouses, a picture was painted in Pollan's mind of what a slaughterhouse was. When Pollan sees how these animals are treated at this farm, he rewrites the misleading information in his head. Pollan says that when he looks at the animals here ... ...

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