Farm Fresh & Ultraprocessed

Image credit: Pixabay. Article by Tom Philpott. Inverse – March 1, 2025. This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.

If you want to see the birthplace of America’s ultraprocessed diet, take a drive through the upper Midwest in high summer. Before long, you’ll be hypnotized by the shimmering green blanket of corn and soybeans that fuels our industrial food system. Radiating from their geographical and spiritual epicenter in Iowa, these two crops cover nearly two-thirds of […]

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