King Corn Trailer

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
King Corn opens in New York City on October 12, 2007 at Cinema Village in a limited engagement, and will be released in several other cities in the following weeks.
Website: http://www.kingcorn.net

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• Corn
• organic
• farming
• sustainable
• bio-fuel
• corn
• syrup

[alrightypewriter]

Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, commodity corn is not the same thing as the corn you can eat right off the cobb. So there's no need to stop buying fresh corn from farmers markets or growing it yourself. It's all the food additives that come from commodity corn that we should be avoiding. Don't eat anything you don't recognize in nature or that needs to be extracted and created in a lab.

[freee4alll]

Generally, I agree with you, but since the food industry gets huge subsidies from the government, their direction is also guided by that, and not just by the consumer.

[Stonecoldmark0316]

Great doc, just checked it out on Netflix last week. What I don't understand is that the people that make these fillers and additives that go into our foods have to eat the same stuff, but I guess they have the money to afford the medical bills??

[foodparadisetv]

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[Roushfan5]

@cozzy1000 You are a fucking idiot.

Yeah in 3rd world countries thats what they do. Here the United States the government *was, I think so eco nutjob group stopped it* building a large multi billion dollar facility in the Nevada desert. Miles from anyone as safe as can be for all the nuclear waste.

The fact is people got scared over three mile island WHERE NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED. And lost their shit. Nuclear is just as safe as any other power generation.

[cozzy1000]

@Roushfan5 yea so lets do that now then before there is no more oil.... theres no such thing as a safe nuclear plant. we dont even know how to dispose of the waste. we just stick it in barrells and dump it in the fuckin sea. when those barrells rust you wont have your salmon or beautiful rivers anymore. cause they will all be fuckin dead and polluted.

[Roushfan5]

@cozzy1000 Or we could build a few highly safe nuclear power plants at a fraction of the land, price, and environmental impact.

I never compared solar panels to oil, but since you brought it up.

Solar panels need oil through their manufacturing process. So converting to solar we'd STILL need oil.

[cozzy1000]

we can use the oceans for hydroelectrics.we can also use the coastlines for wind power."we might as well burn coal" we're gonna burn coal anyway!so lets make solar panels now instead of waiting for coal to vanish completely.jesus man look at how much oil went into the gulf last year,do ya think makin a few solar panels outweighs that? look at how much shit is pumped into the atmosphere globaly for our own pleasures, regardless of the earths well being.

[Roushfan5]

@cozzy1000

Solar: Solar panels are VERY toxic to produce. You might as well burn coal.

Wind: Wind isn't bad, but turbines/farms need a lot of acreage that could be used for farming, buildings, or a natural area like a forest.

Water: You mean hydroelectric? I live in the PNW where hydro where, even with one of the worlds largest rivers can only provide 60% of power to the states of Wa&Or. Damming up the rivers destroys the natural beauty of the river and the local salmon population. Not good.

[cozzy1000]

@Roushfan5 nuclear??! what about solar,wind and water power? these alone can power the world for ever

[cozzy1000]

@greendayfan0913 thats cause ur a fuckin faggot