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Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quotes: Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.
         

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.


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