Cheap corn calories.
Although I have not finished the Pollan book yet, I am sure that corn-based calories are too inexpensive for our own good. If we are judged as a society by how inexpensive food can be, well then we have arrived. If conversely, we are judged by the outcomes of our cheep calories; we have been exposed as failures. We must do a better job of eating without gaining fat, our children deserve better from their role models.