Newsweek
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The worldwide crisis over food prices is the direct result of the decision, made by the Bush administration in 2006, to begin feeding large quantities of American corn to American automobiles, in the form of ethanol. This fateful decision led to a run-up in corn prices, which in turn led farmers to plant more corn…
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Pollan is a gardener, a cook and an uncommonly graceful explainer of natural science; this is the book he was born to write.