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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[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.

[fabi2012ish]

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[GrievousCommander]

Also, France is like 80% nuclear powered. They get a discount on their uranium, because they still "own" territory in Nigeria.

Thorium reactors are a better way of getting nuclear power efficiently, but they haven't been fully developed yet.

[GrievousCommander]

It's interesting how producing "too much" corn ended up being a bad thing.

Corn syrup is in everything now.

[TheArtObsessed]

actually they have found traces of mercury in fructose corn syrup

[Natalia Portnoy]

Most corn grown in the US is genetically modified, which contributes to obesity epidemic and organ destruction. There have been scientific studies published in reputable medical journals proving time and again the hazardous effects of GMO foods. Even without using pesticides, Monsanto's corn seeds are genetically modified and pretty much have a monopoly on the market. So, in general, Americans can probably make due without fresh corn as well.

[GeorgeWashingtonX]

there was some really nice scenery in this movie.. & the trailer kinda comes off as KC being a straight hit piece on the changes in modern corn production/processing industry.. but the 2 film makers explain what drove these changes in American farming (or at least, they allow the man who is considered the architect of those changes explain in his own words.) All technological progress has pluses & minuses.. & imo overall, KC did a good job of documenting them both. (peace)

[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??

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[Roushfan5]

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]

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.