corn corn everywhere and not a drop to eat

Two thirds through nebraska and i was thinking michael pollan was a fraud.
The coastal intelligentsia peacocking around as experts of things they know nothing about.
And I was one of the many disciples who ran his foolish mouth of quoting him.
Where are the miles of corn?
Where are the fence row to fence row of soy?
Where are the abandoned small farms replaced by the archer daniels midland's controlled factory farms?
None.
Instead I found complex rotations and strip planting,
contour plowing and small farms,
diverse crops and animals.
Berkley professors spouting of about agriculture...
I should have known better.
Then i passed Albion
Then i hit the corn.
Miles and miles...
and miles...
and miles...
of corn.
Nothing but corn as far as you could see.
Some soy yes,
but nothing compared to the corn.
So much corn that i can't possibly photograph it.
So much corn that words can't explain the magnitude.
Corn corn corn.
So much corn that it was hilarious.
And none of it is food.

Agricultural Addendum:

The corn and the soy planted through the country is genetically modified by Monsanto to be able to resist its widely popular herbicide Round Up. This allows the farmers to make one pass through a field for planting, one for cultivating, and one last one for a blanket spraying of Round Up killing everything besides the corn or soy. Many farmers even skip the cultivating pass. Combined this allows fewer farmers to cultivate more land.

There is a cost.

Many of them.

Many of them are quite high.

As i rode through the corn and soy I noticed a number of peculiarities but most striking was volunteer corn coming up in this years soy plantings. Corn soy rotations are quite common- this years corn field was last years soy field. What has happened is last years corn replanted itself in this years soy and because last years corn was genetically modified to resist Round Up, the pass made in the late spring didn't kill it. Now it was competing with the soy, and will wreck havoc come harvest time.

ooops....

Guess no one thought about that.

Not quite.

Some Nebraska corn farmers I talked to confirmed that it is a problem, but one Monsanto gladly has a solution for: another chemical which can be sprayed during a second pass killing the volunteers.

The cost of the product? Astronomical.

Now I'm not one to say Monsanto is evil,

but Monsanto is evil.

Ninja shit right there.