Argumentative Essay On Corn

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The fact that we can all agree on whether you have a different taste of music, taller or shorter than others, maybe skinnier or chubbier, a completely different ethnicity than someone next to you, or any other personal trait that correlates with you being a living person, everyone as long as they are alive in this world eats food. Whether you eat 3 times a day, a body builed with prepared meals for 10 times a day, or maybe you just wait off until dinner time before you indulge yourself, it doesn’t matter what you like to eat, everyone needs food to function. Just try to make yourself get through 1 day without eating and see how it affects yourself. Now that we’ve all agreed that food is necessary for the existence of our lives to carry on, do you know what you are actually eating most of the time? I mean of course you have a piece of pizza in front of you, or some hot cheetos and mountain dew you just grabbed from the store, but do you ever pay attention to the statistical ingredients within the food you eat or wonder how it got where it is before it landed right into your hands as an …show more content…

But what’s so wrong with corn you might ask? Corn syrups have been known for being the cause of heart problems and harmful because of how it metabolizes differently than sugar does. In the 1980’s after the wholesale switch to corn sweeteners, there's no wonder why the epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes swept our country. Since sweetness became cheap, instead of lowering prices, soft drink makers super sized their portions and marketing budgets. Since there is about 10 billion bushels of corn produced annually to feed, you can literally have corn in your system just by eating hamburger products or even fish. Yes, they feed corn to fish like salmon because it's the cheapest thing available to feed

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