King Corn

Hey guys,

We will be watching “King Corn” in Schultze 252 tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:00 pm. “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.

The New York Times gave it this critical review:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/movies/12corn.html?_r=0

Owen Gleiberman gave it this favorable review:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20152841,00.html

Here is the trailer, if you’re curious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr5HQrgg9mM

See you all tomorrow. And in class today, I guess.

Andrew