From organic and non-G MO report view on King Corn, it perspective
and my perspective on the film are mostly similar. We live in a world, where
corn is pretty much us, in fact if this keeps up corn maybe omnipresent in everything
we see. Who knows? It may be possible. There
are issues that corn is in everything and there is a good reason why, because
we have so much corn that people weren’t sure what to do with the excess amount
of corn, except to convert it to thing we want, such as fast food and other
luxuries. Even in beef production, we want beef and we would like to quick. So
the companies that do this try to plump up their cows and reduce their exercise
to meet our demands for beef, even though this is hazardous to everyone.
From
that I remembered one of Wendell Berry’s works “Bringing it to the Table,” that
was against this type of farming. He said that we don’t need tractors or
spraying anhydrous ammonia fertilizer or spraying herbicides. We just need to
practice true husbandry to the land and the animals to get the most benefits to
the farm. Despite what Wendell Berry
said before, farmers at Iowa do need the money to survive since we live in a
world of capitalism. Companies and the government forces the farmers to submit
to the rule of capitalism and sell and sell huge amount of corn to keep up the
demands that we, the citizens, want. This film did bring a concern to me whenever I
eat at the dining halls, since corn is in almost everything. So from this film,
I will need to be more aware of the food I need to eat, before I become a
living corn.
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/mar08/King_Corn_film.php
