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King Corn (Green Packaging) [DVD]

Michael Pollan (Actor), Ian Cheney (Actor), Aaron Woolf (Director) Rated:
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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
IMDb7.0/10.0
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Genre Documentary
Format DVD, NTSC, Color
Contributor Aaron Woolf, Dean Jarrett, Dawn Cheney, Ian Cheney, Loren Cordain, Al Marth, Sabita Moktan, Curt Ellis, Chuck Pyatt, Rich Johnson, Allen Trenkele, Stephen Macko, Scott McGregor, Farida Khan, Fray Mendez, Ricardo Salvador, Sue Jarrett, Earl Butz, Michael Pollan, Bob Bledsoe, Audrae Erickson See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 30 minutes

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KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America.

With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.

A graceful and frequently humorous film that captures the idiosyncrasies of its characters and never hectors (Salon), KING CORN shows how and why whenever you eat a hamburger or drink a soda, you re really consuming ... corn.

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Picking up where Super Size Me left off, King Corn examines America's health woes through the multifaceted lens of one humble grain. Director Aaron Woolf and co-writers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis offer irrefutable proof that the US is virtually drowning in the stuff. Corn meal, corn starch, hydrologized corn protein, and high fructose corn syrup fuel a multitude of products, from soft drinks to hamburgers. The starchy vegetable grows with ease and government subsidies insure over-abundant production. Woolf documents the 11-month effort of college friends Cheney and Ellis, who trace their ancestry to the same small Iowa town, to raise their own crop. After finding a farmer willing to lend them an acre, they meet with agronomists, historians, and other experts before plowing, seeding, and spraying. Prior to harvesting, the easygoing Yale grads travel to Colorado to compare the grass-fed cattle of yore with today's corn-fed counterparts; then to New York to explore the links between corn syrup, obesity, and diabetes. With assistance from author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), a whimsical score, and stop-motion animation--farm toys and corn kernels--Woolf and associates bring biochemistry to vivid life. On a micro level, this genial eye-opener celebrates friends and farmers; on a macro level, King Corn bemoans the subsidies and genetic modifications that have turned a formerly protein-filled product into the fatty "yellow dent no. 2." Bonus features include a music video, photo gallery, and "The Lost Basement Lectures," an amusingly fake instructional movie about the aims of agriculture. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 2.24 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Aaron Woolf
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 29, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael Pollan, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Stephen Macko, Chuck Pyatt
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ New Video Group
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0012680D0
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 481 ratings

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Pamela Hybridge
5.0 out of 5 stars King Korn
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2010
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King Korn is a slower pace documentary, but all the facts about what their study showed about our government control and dictatorship over America's crops is worth seeing. I was amazed to learn of how many products have high fructose corn syrup. I was shocked to understand American farming as it is run today. I was amazed that we have a surplus of corn yet American crops are still being forced to produce more corn....and a type of corn that isn't EVEN eatable is retarded. The corn has to be processed at a plant owned by corrupt business owners who dictate once again what will be done with all this corn and how to incorporate it into our daily diet and into almost every possible food you purchase on a regular grocery store shelf. Amazing enough corn has no dietary benefits to our diet and makes obesity skyrocket in America; and other nations who drink soda...which is almost pure high fructose corn syrup. This is bad politics, bad for our environment, bad for our bodies, simply bad economics and use of our American soil. We should let farmers grow a variety of food and that way we can survive more efficacy off the land. An eye opener on why obesity and healthy issues occur and the misguided information on eating healthy and having a variety of food choices....but EVERYTHING HAS CORN in it... EVEN OUR BEEF!!! Educational for sure. If you want to be healthy learn what they do to your food before these corporations feed you their ill products that will only cause you health problems down the road and then you'll be hooked into buying prescribed medication to fix all your problems that they created anyways. Healthy Organic food is better for you and may cost more but you'll save money in the long run on your hospital bills. Stay alive and don't let them put their garbage down your throat. Look for online healthier sources to eat at.... ONE good website is called. [...] you can find any restaurant in the world w/ great quality food options on this site... another place I like is [...] ( sure there will be similar places where your meat is NOT CORN FEED), GRASS FEED BEEF is the way to go. Environmentally it is better for everyone; Eat Educated and watch what you put inside you. You don't just put any cheap gas in your car so why should your body be any different; right?! Be an educated consumer. Or if you don't care keep buying lead base toys from China...and eat the crap they serve you. Dumb people should die and make more room for us educated who want to protect our environment and live off the land in harmony.
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Preston C. Enright
5.0 out of 5 stars Growing awareness of food vs. agribusiness.
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2008
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This interesting film illustrates what happens when food becomes more of a vehicle for making money than for feeding people. Most of the corn we grow in our 'breadbasket' is inedible for humans, and is used as feedgrain for cows (I wonder how much the cows like it as well).
In addition to documenting their farming experiment, the filmmakers visited a massive cattle feedlot in Colorado. It brought to mind another movie that explores our meat industry  Fast Food Nation . As the meat industry, like the cigarette industry, increases their global marketing, ever increasing amounts of grain are being used to feed cattle; along with creating fuels. Amazingly, some crops are being genetically modified to produce pharmaceuticals  Transgenic Plants: A Production System for Industrial and Pharmaceutical Proteins .
With growing food crises around the world, one wonders when we'll reach a tipping point and decide to create a food system that serves people instead of serving the interests of executives at Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland  Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World . Thinkers like Frances Moore Lappe have long argued that the real issue behind a lack of food security is not a lack of food, but rather a lack of democracy  World Hunger: Twelve Myths . We need to dethrone 'Kings' of corn and many other commodities and put decision making power into the hands of civil society, as Vandana Shiva has advocated for so eloquently  Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace . See some of Shiva's presentations on YouTube, she's a modern-day Gandhi.

A couple other resources to help us create a sustainable, organic, biodiverse, and localized food system:
 Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works (Our Sustainable Future)
Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair
Mother Earth News
How to Save the World
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L. M. Kersey
5.0 out of 5 stars Think BEYOND Supersize Me!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2009
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King Corn really isn't fairly categorized as a little brother of Supersize Me. It is an entertaining though disturbing documentary that is more accurately categorized with other food INDUSTRY documentaries, such as Food, Inc. or The World According to Monsanto (both alarming and eye-opening as well).
Supersize Me is wonderful for following, in one man, the appalling health deterioration born of eating only corn (okay, of eating only McDonald's, but watch King Corn, and you'll see the direct parallel), but Supersize Me doesn't cover how the US government indirectly yet absolutely funds the fast food industry and almost every packaged, processed, unhealthy food on the market by subsidizing the commodity crops that are those foods' core ingredients.

Watch King Corn. Then watch Supersize Me again (or for the first time--it's REALLY entertaining). And this time you'll understand WHY it costs McDonald's only five cents for every twenty five cent Supersize they're able to sell. It's because corn is subsidized; it's cheap. And corn is in EVERYTHING they serve.

And by the way, the irony of this in the midst of our current healthcare battle is tremendous. Government pays for the creation of cheap, abundant, crappy food that makes our bodies obese, diabetic, and sick, then Congress fights about how to fund the ever-growing healthcare burden of obese, diabetic, sick patients. Regardless of HOW we fund it, we're fighting about the pound of cure. I don't argue that government should strip farm subsidies. But if we're really going to argue about the cost of healthcare, we should be fighting about how to better use farm subsidy funds to grow healthy food. We should be fighting about ounce of prevention.
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Gary Fuhrman
5.0 out of 5 stars Corporate agribusiness politics exposed
Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2010
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This film appeared before Food, Inc. but didn't get as much attention for some reason. But through its focus on corn (heavily subsidized in the US), and the health fallout from its domination of the food industry, it tells pretty much the same story of corporate greed and its consequences. You should see at least one of these films if you want a little insight into where your food comes from. Both films have excellent extra features on the DVD, too. King Corn is a bit lighter and perhaps doesn't give as much information about "what you can do" as Food Inc. But it also covers its chosen topic (corn, and its main uses as beef cattle feed and source of high fructose corn syrup) in more depth than the other film, so the ideal would be to see both. If enough people see either film, perhaps the epidemic of obesity and diabetes can be reversed, and family farms will start to recover from their near-extinction by factory farms. This could also help to turn climate change around.
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長良鵜太郎
5.0 out of 5 stars キングコーンは日本も支配する
Reviewed in Japan on July 18, 2009
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日本のお米の生産量が年間８００万トン、日本の家畜の飼料用トウモロコシ（コーン）の輸入量が１６００万トン。９８％がアメリカからと言われている。アメリカのフードシステムの頂点に立つコーンが如何に安く日本に入り、日本もそのシステムに組み込まれているか。そして、我々日本人の農業と食の諸問題が如何に重要な問題を抱えているか。アメリカの青年２人が実際のコーン生産を実体験しながら農業政策、コミュニティ、除草剤とＧＭ品種、極度に効率化を図る食肉生産の現場、コーンシロップ多用による肥満、糖尿病の医療の問題等々の課題をわかりやすく提議している。日本はどのようなフードシステムを作り上げるべきか、大変参考になり且つ多くの日本人も観るべき映画と思った。
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