In the text "The Omnivore's Dilemma", the author talks about how hybrid corn was a great impact on farmers. In the text it states, " For example, you might take a type of corn that resists disease and cross it with another type of corn that produces a lot of ears. The result is a hybrid- a disease-resistant plant that produces a lot of corn". This tells me that farmers didn't have to worry about diseases that might have weakened their growth of corn because it was disease resistant and it grew a lot of corn which satisfied farmers. In the text the author introduces an conflicting reasoning about hybrid corn. The author state in the text "The plants will have all the good traits the seed company promised. But the "children" of that crop will be mixed. Some plants will be like their hybrid parents, but most will not". This tells me that the hybrid corn seed that is planted will differeranate from its parents because it wouldn't produce as much as corn as the parents of the offspring.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that the farmers had to worry less about their crops because the corn had properties that allowed them to be able to survive in which made them more popular because it did not take much work to plant the seeds
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