"If they saw dry grains of maize scattered on the ground, they
quickly gathered them up, saying "Our Sustenance suffereth, it
lieth weeping. If we should not gather it up, it would accuse us
before our Lord. It would say, 'O, Our Lord, this vassal picked
me not up when I lay scattered upon the ground. Punish him!'
Or perhaps we should starve."
...has been reduced to an over abundant mountains of dust and pebble thanks to the modern industrial processing.
The author intended to follow Corn form the Naylor farm all the way to the human belly, but he realized it was an futile attempt. As futile as wanting to trace a cup of water to the ocean after it has been dumped into a river.
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sources: The International Centre for Environmental Management and Go!
The author is then forced to assume that all corn planted and used in the industrial process is equivalent (referring back to the water analogy).
From this perspective - corn is a lot like water. In that it is in fact both are precious resource globally, yet the North Americans can treat it like an endless cheap supply.
source: Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
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