The film is wrong. Supply and demand balancing policies didn't end with Earl Butz, but ended in 1996. Oversupply and cheap prices began in 1953, and increased until price floors were ended in 1996. Second, this means that subsidies don't cause the cheap corn, these other policies cause it. The lack of these (unmentioned in the film) policies are what have made cornfed meat cheaper than grassfed. See videos to explain this at my channel.
Nice review, you hit all the high points of the movie. Especially the part regarding corn related government subsidies and super farms. This documentary kind of slipped through the cracks I think. People need to think more about what they eat and what their grocery money supports.
Why the asian man at the end or the documentary speaks so fucking Fast, Its hard to follow, I cant hardly understand what he is saying . He speaks like a robot. Its very annoying, Do all american people speak like that?
ALL farm subsidies should be done away with. They just help big farms, not little ones. Corn is now being turned into an alternative fuel supply, but this too has backfired since it takes MORE than a dollar to make a dollar's worth of fuel, and it creates its own pollutants when burned. I grew up around cows and I can remember how both the meat and milk tasted from them and I can testify that both the milk and meat from grass-fed cows tasted far better than the milk and meat from corn-fed ones.
I usually catch your reviews every Friday when I listen to the Young Turks. Although I basically agree with 95% of what you said, I have to call you out on the use of "ascorbic acid" as if it were some nasty industrial chemical. It's just vitamin C, for all the bad the corn industry may cause in this the world, preventing scurvy shouldn't be on its list of sins. Why is it the left so often misinterprets science, while the right chooses to ignore it?
Thanks for watching! Actually, i wasn't saying that ascorbic acid is bad since i don't know what it does. I was just saying that it's a corn-based ingredient that doesn't sound like it has corn in it based on its name. Besides, I don't think we'd be having a scurvy epidemic if it weren't for ascorbic acid. But i really appreciate your comment. I need people like you to keep me honest ;-)
Well, the D- and L-isomers of ascorbic acid (AA) may exist in different proportions in synthetic ascorbic acid compared to "natural AA" found in fruit & veg. Only the L-form is biologically active in preventing/curing scurvy, in collagen formation, etc.. Too, tho its significance is not known, the carbon isotope fraction in corn-based AA is probably markedly different due to the selective uptake of C12 vs C13 in maize vs other plants vs endogenous AA made in the organs of most other mammals.
The film is wrong. Supply and demand balancing policies didn't end with Earl Butz, but ended in 1996. Oversupply and cheap prices began in 1953, and increased until price floors were ended in 1996. Second, this means that subsidies don't cause the cheap corn, these other policies cause it. The lack of these (unmentioned in the film) policies are what have made cornfed meat cheaper than grassfed. See videos to explain this at my channel.
FireweedFarm 4 months ago
High fructose corn syrup is in almost everything.smdh
Monsanto is evil as these mo'foers are trying to control and kill us- for profit at that.
IceManLikeGervin 5 months ago
High fructose corn syrup is in almost everything.smdh
Monsanto is evil as these mo'foers are trying to control and kill us- for profit at that...
IceManLikeGervin 5 months ago
I wouldn't consume high fructose corn sytup , and I would'nt let my kids consume it to
DietSolutionReviews1 11 months ago
And apple might have corn-based wax on it, actually
MLEvlog 1 year ago
Nice review, you hit all the high points of the movie. Especially the part regarding corn related government subsidies and super farms. This documentary kind of slipped through the cracks I think. People need to think more about what they eat and what their grocery money supports.
arthurspilling 1 year ago 2
Why the asian man at the end or the documentary speaks so fucking Fast, Its hard to follow, I cant hardly understand what he is saying . He speaks like a robot. Its very annoying, Do all american people speak like that?
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OlegDjan77 2 years ago
ALL farm subsidies should be done away with. They just help big farms, not little ones. Corn is now being turned into an alternative fuel supply, but this too has backfired since it takes MORE than a dollar to make a dollar's worth of fuel, and it creates its own pollutants when burned. I grew up around cows and I can remember how both the meat and milk tasted from them and I can testify that both the milk and meat from grass-fed cows tasted far better than the milk and meat from corn-fed ones.
biggiejeffrey 2 years ago 5
I usually catch your reviews every Friday when I listen to the Young Turks. Although I basically agree with 95% of what you said, I have to call you out on the use of "ascorbic acid" as if it were some nasty industrial chemical. It's just vitamin C, for all the bad the corn industry may cause in this the world, preventing scurvy shouldn't be on its list of sins. Why is it the left so often misinterprets science, while the right chooses to ignore it?
IGMATATS 2 years ago 3
Thanks for watching! Actually, i wasn't saying that ascorbic acid is bad since i don't know what it does. I was just saying that it's a corn-based ingredient that doesn't sound like it has corn in it based on its name. Besides, I don't think we'd be having a scurvy epidemic if it weren't for ascorbic acid. But i really appreciate your comment. I need people like you to keep me honest ;-)
jsjkim 2 years ago
I never suspected an intentional lapse in honesty, I just thought your science needed a little straightening out. Keep up the good work.
IGMATATS 2 years ago 2
Well, the D- and L-isomers of ascorbic acid (AA) may exist in different proportions in synthetic ascorbic acid compared to "natural AA" found in fruit & veg. Only the L-form is biologically active in preventing/curing scurvy, in collagen formation, etc.. Too, tho its significance is not known, the carbon isotope fraction in corn-based AA is probably markedly different due to the selective uptake of C12 vs C13 in maize vs other plants vs endogenous AA made in the organs of most other mammals.
seaXcrow 9 months ago