http://shootingpeople.org/fromthehip/2007/10/12/you-are-what-you-eat/ Independent film blog connected to Shooting People Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://shootingpeople.org/fromthehip/2007/10/12/you-are-what-you-eat/#comment-497 Shooting People: Shooting From The Hip » Blog Archive » King Corn on PBS Tonight Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:14:17 +0000 http://shootingpeople.org/fromthehip2/?p=81#comment-497 [...] I wrote about King Corn last year when it had its theatrical release. If you missed it back then, now is your chance to catch it on TV. The film is about two recent college graduates, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, who decide to move to rural Iowa to plant an acre of corn and follow it through the food production chain all the way to the dinner plate. Along the way they learn some rather nasty facts about the way our food is produced. The bottom line: Americans eat too much corn and the cost of food in this country does not reflect the true cost of producing it. The industrial process of food production is literally “fast food” and it is doing terrible things to our health and to the wider eco-system. [...] [...] I wrote about King Corn last year when it had its theatrical release. If you missed it back then, now is your chance to catch it on TV. The film is about two recent college graduates, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, who decide to move to rural Iowa to plant an acre of corn and follow it through the food production chain all the way to the dinner plate. Along the way they learn some rather nasty facts about the way our food is produced. The bottom line: Americans eat too much corn and the cost of food in this country does not reflect the true cost of producing it. The industrial process of food production is literally “fast food” and it is doing terrible things to our health and to the wider eco-system. [...]

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