Response to The Omnivore's Dilemma

I totally agree with Sims Frazier that everything around us is actually interconnected. They relate with each other no matter how complicated and hard it is. If we look with our naked eyes, maybe we are unable to see how they are related with each other. However, we can see how they are connected when we think outside the box. For instance, a chicken nugget, piles corn upon corn: what chicken it contains consists of corn, of course, but so do most of a nugget’s other constituents, including the modified corn starch that glues the thing together, the corn flour in the batter that coats it, and the corn oil in which it gets fried. Much less obviously, the leavenings and lecithin, the attractive golden coloring, and even the citric acid that keeps the nugget “fresh” can all be derived from corn. Moreover, to wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Now, you realize how amazing the corn is? "Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronomist Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "and I will tell you what you are." We're corn. Is eating all this corn good for us? Who knows? We think we've tamed nature, but we're just beginning to learn about all that we don't yet know. Ships were once provided with plenty of food, but sailors got scurvy because they needed vitamin C. We're sailing on the same sea, thinking we're eating well but still discovering nutrients in our food that we hadn't known were there -that we don't yet know we need.