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Andrew Venell
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(American, b. 1979) lives in San Francisco, CA. His work incorporates new media, collage, video, interactive narrative, sculpture and performance to highlight the absurdities and anxieties of the heavily mediated life... more about Andrew »
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09.11.08
Biologist Todd Dawson of the University of California at Berkeley looked at a typical McDonald’s meal with a mass spectrometer to track the carbon compounds that come from corn. He discovered that 52% of a Big Mac is corn. But wait, that’s not all.
“The McDonald’s milkshake. 100% of the carbon was corn-derived. It’s a corn shake.” said Todd Dawson.
Then Dawson did the same test on humans. On average, 60% of the carbon in Americans was from corn, he found, compared to just 10% in Europeans.
“‘We’re like a walking tortilla chip.” said Dawson.