Zea Mays, the giant tropical grass also known as "corn," was domesticated in Mexico thousands of years ago where the people named themselves Corn Walkers. Michael Pollan states in his book "Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" that "there are some 45,000 items in the average American supermarket, and more than a quarter of them contain corn" (19). If that number of corn-related products is accurate, and we are indeed, "what we eat," then the majority of Americans are consuming a whole lot of corn! The program CIMMYT that began in the 1980's optimized the corps strains and today the commercial production of genetically modified (GM) maize revolutionize our way of eating but also processed corn is a material for bio plastic, batteries, alcohol and other industrial products. The industrial corn process that the author follows starts in Iowa where the farmers sow the hybrid grains in the soil but they "now had to buy seeds every spring; instead of depending upon their plants to reproduce themselves, they now depended on a corporation" (31), which the author compares as a biological patent. There's so much corn being grown in America today that the price of a bushel of corn is about a dollar beneath the true cost of growing it, which is good for everyone but the corn farmers. The supply of corn, which is 10 billion bushels today, vastly exceeds the demand. This phenomenon causes a problem to find people and animals to consume it, new products to absorb it and nations to import it. About 60% of the mountains of corn grown ever season goes to feed livestock at a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation or otherwise known as a feed lot such as Poky Feeders factory cattle farm in Kansas .The author buys a steer called "number 534" from a rancher in South Dakota and follows its short life from the feedlot to the slaughterhouse. He observe that the lifespan of the animal is being cut in half to about 5 months because it is fed with corn and lives in a very small space and points out that "the urbanization of America's animal population would never have taken place if not for the advent of cheap, federally subsidized corn." The unnatural off grass feeding of livestock makes them become so sick that they need medication such as antibiotics which are transferred to the human body when they eat meat. After Pollen describes the wide variety of cow's illnesses, he couldn't imagine that his own steer is also barrel of oil and "couldn't imagine ever wanting to eat the flesh of one of these protein machines" (84). The author believes in the natural way of eating that connects us "to the fertility of the earth and the energy of the sun but we live in an industrialized society. I think this quote very well summarize his journey in the feedlot: "But nature abhors a surplus, and the corn must be consumed. Enter the corn-fed American steer" (64). Some of the rest of the 60