It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable.

To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot system for beef, to giant monocultures to grow potatoes. All of those thing flow from the desire of fast-food companies for a perfectly consistent product.

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

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