King Corn: You Are What You Eat →

This film brings to light some of the challenges that I would like to face in my thesis development, namely the cycle and influences that make eating right a little harder than we all may be aware. As food becomes cheaper we are only beginning to understand the true cost that cheapness demands from our environment and our health. We are living in a world where “Animal nutritionists confirm that corn makes cows sick and beef fatty, but it also lets consumers eat a $1 hamburger.”

Synopsis: 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 mostproductive, 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.