Food Inc. puts forth a lot of information, some of which I already knew:
- Corn and its derivates inhabit just about everything we buy from the supermarket.
- Factory farming leads to crowded feed lots where cows stand in their own feces and to lightless henhouses where chickens bred to grow up fast and fat squat in their own squallor.
But most of the information was new to me (feeding cows corn makes them more vulnerable to spreading E. Coli). And all of it was even more terrifying than
