So I heard a podcast about America's dysfunctional eating habits, about corn and about how Americans use and consume foodstuffs.
The Omniivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan it sounded unbelievable so I bought the book

To paraphrase (badly) If you are what you eat Americans are walking corn chips. if you cut any American in half they contain a higher percentage of corn (As measured by carbon 12 - 13 ratio) than any nation on the planet.
Corn or corn starch is in everything - more than 10,000 supermarket items. They eat breath and drink the stuff and wonder why they have to waddle every where. The corn is mostly grown in Iowa, along with only one other crop soya and this monoculture produces food that seems to cost more to grow than it sells for; to feed factories of cattle a diet evolution never designed them to consume. Cattle eventually die if fed nothing but corn - but because most of the antibiotics sold in America today end up in animal feed they survive long enough to fatten up. The cattle are shipped to thousands of square miles of feeding stations where they are compelled to ingest a mixture of corn, liquefied fat, protein supplements, vitamins , synthetic estrogen, antibiotics, hay and silage........ What a mess any way Ive just started the book so I better read on.

How stupid can a government be to perpetuate such a shambolic Agricultural policy. The farmers cant feed themselves and are flooding America with food that is killing their fellow citizens as well as the animals they farm.