Food and Corn Production

We have been wrapping up the research on our "It cost what?" projects over the last several class periods and are just about finished. Now we will concentrate on planning out and creating our posters for presentation.
Today we split into small groups and read different sections of Michael Pollan's book, "Omnivore's Dilemma." We concentrated on the farming of corn on a large scale, the processing of corn into different products, the corn that is hidden in about a quarter of the things that we eat and use, and the raising of corn fed beef. Each team then presented what they had learned to the rest of the group. We got through about half of the presentations today and will finish the rest of them tomorrow.