For example,companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta have been developing corn with reduced water needs.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The corn to ethanol conversion in the United States, and other things like that has really changed the world landscape in a lot of interesting ways.

在美国,很多类似于玉米制乙醇的技术,正以有趣的方式,改变着我们的世界

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For example, companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta are developing corn with reduced water needs.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

And then of course, there's the word sugar itself and then things like high fructose corn syrup, so there are a lot of ways that sugar gets put into foods and you wouldn't expect it to be there.

当然,还有糖本身这个词,还有像高果糖玉米糖浆这类东西,所以食品中含有很多形式的糖,而且你不知道它的存在

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Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Another is how much it's processed and how if you take things that started out as food like wheat or corn, and then they're processed many different ways, and things are added to them or done to them that change their chemical properties, does that affect whether we would consider them food?

另一个是它们被加工过程和程度,比如对于用来食用的麦子和玉米,有很多种加工方式,可以向它们添加一些东西,或进行一些加工去改变它们的化学性质,这会影响我们去判断它们是否为食品吗

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