(HealthDayNews) -- Corn, which seems strong, sturdy and healthy as you drive by fields of it, doesn't come by its good looks naturally. At least the modern high-tech versions don't.
Every modern specie is specially bred to stand up well against the army of enemies corn plants face -- both the natural ones (animal, bacterial and viral) and those produced by man to attack the environment's own troublemakers.
Man's arsenal of pest controllers come in the form of herbicides, insecticides and other chemical killers. Though all these chemicals must be certified as safe by the U.S. government, some people remain concerned for those who will eventually consume traces of field chemicals.
According to the Ohio State University Agricultural Extension, corn is treated with well over 20 different chemicals before it ends up on our kitchen tables.
