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The King Corn Documentary Summary
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The King Corn movie, which takes place in Greene, Iowa, is a dialogue based on the topic of corn and how corn has an effect on our daily lives. The two “star” individuals, who go by the names of Ian and Curtis, after graduating from college decided to find out about this rumor of corn causing a short life-span. The two curiously decide to move to Iowa and commence their adventure to find out if this rumor is actually true and educate others how corn has infiltrated the food most Americans eat at this present time. With this documentary, Ian and Curtis are able to let the truth be known to all who watch the film.

One of the land owners receives a letter from Curtis and Ian, requesting that they would like to purchase …show more content…
One main interesting fact I found to be is the misleading nutrition facts of corn and how corn syrup is not recognized as corn syrup but as fructose syrup etc. etc. etc. Along with that corn syrup is one of the nation’s leading diagnoses of diabetes and obesity. I feel we would be able to somehow broadcast the truth about how the food Americans eat today not only shorten your life-span but also cause disease, complications, and eventually add more bills to the list. Mentioned in the documentary, farmers used ammonia with the rapid growth of corn fields, which I found interesting. When it came out to finding out how much the government would contribute to the cultivation of each acre in astonishment it was a contribution of $28.00 per acre! Another interesting point, out of half of the crop will be turned into meat that we see in most grocery stores and 490lbs of corn will become sweeteners. Also I believe that Melvin W. Elvis was the first owner of a tractor. Present day the town of Greene, Iowa cultivated 2 trillion corn plants, the largest corn crop in American …show more content…
The professor explains how it’s a raw material not edible, and be processed first which went into most foods and sugars. I believe there are good alternatives to corn-fed meat and fluids. Definitely shop for grass-fed meat and buy organic fluids and naturally made fluids. Cheap food in no shape or form is a good thing dealing with any health benefits. Only advantage is a poor family looking for quantity or feeding the homeless because of the low cost and commodity. I don’t necessarily agree with but I guess money has a lot to do with. Corn subsidies change accordingly to an overweight society and the government has the power or say to make these
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