King Corn

KING CORN tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, IanCheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, moveto the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help offriendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-ubiquitous grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to followtheir pile of corn into the food system, what they questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

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[TheCornlords]

There's a little corn in all of us...CORN BLESS YOU ALL!

[cubachang]

@OntarioCrops good then you eat that BT corn, and tell me how your health is 20 years from now.

[airic554]

@ozkaa LOL.. really. i did. 

[MichaelFinazzo]

we are fucked



[DBKK]

@gwk78 grass fed can be done. Polyface farms is the best example of that, it is a big operation that has lots of organic food. you bring up alot of good points though, but the main problem is government policy. if corn wasnt subsidized and organic farming was or some sort of next generation farm bill than things would change very quicky since farming corn isnt even profitable without government aid.

[ozkaa]

this looks corny

[OntarioCrops]

@newgtguy

Farmers spray just as much or more "deadly" on conventional or non RR corn.

Infact BT corn that produces its own pesticide proteins requires no insecticide spray and you don't kill benificial insects.

Terminator gene is a farce bud, no such thing. Hybrid corn is purchased every year whether or not its GMO.

You do some research and don't pretend your an agronomy expert.

[Moleson3MC]

Its the KING. No, I'm not talking about Elvis. One Word.

Corn

[Kubasketballrocks93]

somebody should probably tell that guy in the first 10 seconds that playing on grain is a major safety hazard. just a heads up for the next time he decides to slide down a pile of corn. easy way to fall through and suffocate. so PLEASE don't try to do that.

[gwk78]

@RexTheCyberdog really expensive. To finish out a steer on grass takes twice as long as it does in a feed lot. to have enough grass to finish an animal means big acres. to have money invested in that animal for 2 years before you see any revenue from its is a huge financial risk. Land is not cheap. land that can produce alot of grass is really expensive. Just finishing cattle on land with that much value will bankrupt you real quick