Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.
Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn’t look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/turkeytech/
Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life,
dies at 96
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The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and
chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, *Titicut
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