"Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey; Whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky," Luke Bryan, Rain is a Good Thing.

Corn has been around for a rather long time now, and the widely grown grain crop throughout the Americas, with 332 million metric tons grown annually in the United States alone, American's could not help but wonder how much of the total population of given corn is genetically modified. Thanks to information given to us from Food, Inc, a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner, it is now no secret about how much corn is actually used within our nations food, it being one of the major ingredients in meats, other vegetables, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, and even non-edible products such as disposable diapers and health and medical products such as penicillin, antibiotics, and vitamins. And, along with it, information gathered by GMO Compass, it is shocking to learn that in the year 2009, genetically modified corn population increased from 9.5% (1997) to a shocking 85% in the United States. Other countries such as Canada, Argentina, and South Africa also faced such a drastic increase in genetically modified corn. This could be a problem because corn was made to be served in a certain way, and there's a possibility that with the genetic modification of our food, we may be causing even more illnesses in our system. With the appearance of Escherichia coli, we could not help but wonder what else is headed our way. Below is the link to the site that shows the statistics of the shocking growth of the genetically modified corn.

http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/agri_biotechnology/gmo_planting/341.genetically_modified_maize_global_area_under_cultivation.html