If one takes Pollan’s arguments further, one can see that the industrialization of our food system is negatively changing the evolution of all species on the planet. All our planet’s vegetables, fruits, trees, and even flowers are being sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals that are incrementally changing the genetics in these plants. We can see how the alternation of plants leads to a whole species change by looking towards the beginning of the food chain. When plants are sprayed with chemicals, they are eaten by cows and other farm animals, which ultimately leads to people.
The really sad thing that is going on is that major farming corporations backed by the USDA are supporting farm animals to eat the U.S.’s cheap surplus of corn although their bodies are not designed to do so. This act is tampering with an old process that evolution that humans still barely know anything about.
Yes, it ultimately is this huge circle where like you said--once the plants are sprayed with chemicals, the animals then eat them, then that eventually, in some way or another leads to people.
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to see what will happen 10 or 20 years down the line. Will there be more of a problem where the evolution of plants be dramatically reversed? I almost don't want to know.