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King Corn is kind of like Well-organized Size Me’s limited brother. It traces the pervasive influence of corn on original America, including the obesity epidemic and the fact that Iowa is growing trillions of bushels of *non-edible* corn to continue receiving lucrative government subsidies. College buddies Ian and Curt, both from the east flee, peruse that they both had distant relatives from the same diminutive town of Greene, Iowa. Ian and Curt choose to go to Iowa and plant one acre of corn, following it through its lifecycle, including where it goes after the harvest.

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The film starts off slowly as the reasons for the stride are explained. The prerequisite talking heads introduce some scary factoids about how Americans are literally made of corn; if you do a hair analysis, it’s like a diet diary, and the astronomical majority of the American diet (corn-fed beef, fleet foods and processed foods) contains corn derivatives. Considerable of the corn we ingest is in the guise of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a cheaper alternative to sugar that is produced via a scary chemical conversion curious several toxic acids. HFCS has been directly linked to the new obesity crisis and its impact on Type II Diabetes (the body processes HFCS differently from table sugar) . Prior to the 1970s, hardly any company ancient HFCS due to its high cost. But after then-Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz did away with the conventional Recent Deal market control policies in favor of fleet expansion in 1973, there was a constant surplus of cheap (and non-edible) corn, fueling the like a flash expansion of the corn syrup industry. Here’s a lickety-split test: gallop into any convenience store and count how many items believe corn, specifically corn syrup. The list includes distinct choices like soda and candy, but you’ll also collect HFCS in deli meats, breads, ketchup, scrape luxuriate in, spaghetti sauce, and cough syrup. Oh yes, and one main variety of corn grown in Iowa (Liberty) is genetically modified, as is at least one ingredient in HFCS manufacturing.

Corn production geared towards ethanol is briefly mentioned, but the majority of the focus in King Corn is on the impact of non-edible corn on the nation’s food supply. In this respect, it’s kind of a gentler version of Supersize Me; there’s no shock value for the most allotment. Also mentioned is the disastrous consequence of converting cattle from grazing animals to force-fed confined ones. Cattle normally forage for a plant-based diet, but it is far more estimable to bring them up to market weight by forcing them to stand composed and eat continuously. In addition, the acids exhibit in corn cause deadly ulcers for the cows, who are slaughtered before developing acidosis. The waste result is that 70% of the antibiotics in the US are former on livestock (antibiotics combat both the acidosis and the infections resulting from confinement) . Literally everything at McDonald’s contains corn: your hamburger is corn-fed, the bun contains HFCS, your soda contains HFCS, the French fries are fried in corn (or soybean) oil, and your ketchup and spot contains HFCS. Ditto for most vending machine foods, frozen dinners, and anything you don’t perform from scratch. It’s extremely difficult to run buying foods containing corn, since a variety of pseudonyms are extinct, including baking powder, caramel color, dextrose, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, stearic acid, and vanilla, making it a nightmare for anyone with corn allergies.

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Perhaps the most effective element is that of nostalgia. Ian and Curt also retract time to gather their long-lost relatives in Greene, and to mediate on the fleet changes in our recently agrarian society that have forced farmers to own massive farms harvesting non-edible corn. In other words, the farmer can’t even feed himself with what he’s growing. Without the hefty government subsidies, such large-scale corn operations would be out of business. They interview various farmers and ranchers who are disgusted with the system, but who have limited accurate choice (one farmer says flatly, “We’re growing crap!”) . We’re shown the evolution of farming equipment and of the family farm itself as a quaint reminder of the past; there are nostalgic shots of Main Street and hometown parades, calm diners and local bars.

Ian and Curt’s visual style is playful; the charts and graphs are hand-drawn, interspersed with stop-motion plastic farm toys to bag the point across (and the dancing corn on the method of the US was expansive, too) . The quirky soundtrack is a standout as well. DVD extras include some outtakes, a music video, bios, and some ample 1950s-style educational clips. King Corn is a thought-provoking gaze at the outmoded adage “You are what you eat,” and boy, it’s scary.

Although not perfect, I’ll give any documentary, movie, TV prove or book five stars if it alters my life and King Corn definitely rates five tubby stars. I would highly recommend that everyone catch or at least thought this movie once; I had the opportunity to seek it this week on PBS’s series “Independent Lens.” Corn is nothing but a “raw material” that is separated to almost its basic elements and faded to produce our daily “garbage” diet.

I learned about the relationship between obesity and the exhaust of high fructose corn syrup (aka HFCS) by accident a few years ago when I made a visit to Victoria, Texas and they sold Dr. Pepper with “Imperial Sugar” and the 10-2-4 logo on the bottle. I didn’t know that sometime in the early 70’s that the soft drink companies switched from sugar to HFCS as the sweetener. Who would have view that decades after being told that sugar is poor for your teeth, etc., etc. that it is actually worthy better for you than the HFCS alternative!

After watching this documentary I did some research and HFCS is in almost everything you remove. For example, it is that main ingredient in many of the ice cream syrups on the supermarket shelves… HFCS is in everything develop hamburger and hot dog buns to “coarse elephantine” salad dressing! Honey graham crackers… EVERYTHING! Quickly foods are beefy of this HFCS junk and this is only one of the many things you’ll learn from this documentary.

Where I live in Corpus Christi most of the population is obese, they utilize tiny (if at all), have a high incidence of diabetes and expeditiously foods are their approved filler. In fact, at the local Driscoll Children’s Hospital on one side you have the emergency entrance and on the other the “golden arches.” No joke! It is really black.

One can only project into the future after the wheat gluten from China killed our pets in the United States… Will we outsource growing corn to China so we can pick up even cheaper HFCS to fatten and end our population off?

My only minor criticism is that the filmmakers didn’t leer our government’s role in ruining our diets by providing a version of “corporate welfare” to factory farms that gain this junk. As it turns out, they would not be in this business, do the subsidies they rep from the USDA. Go figure!

UPDATE 13May08: A original anecdote in the The Wall Street Journal [1-year subscription] (May 7, 2008, Page B3A) by Susan Buchanan raises some provocative points on the exhaust of corn syrup.

I do not want to give anyone the impression that the only reason that our nation is obese is due to HFCS. In fact, the quandary with obesity in the United States is the result of many interrelated and complex factors. They include, cheaper foods coupled with larger portions, an increase in eating out (especially at quickly food joints), reduction in spend and, unfortunately, a greater acceptance of being overweight as the “norm” in our society.

As this film points out, our government is responsible for subsidies to accomplish something that is unprofitable friendly, while at the same time making food cheaper with heavy doses of HFCS inside. I wish, instead, that our government would give sizable subsidies to organic farmers and tax breaks to those who slump or hurry their bikes to work. Instead, our government (FCC) is more concerned with giving us more channels of digital TV by February 2009; another major cause of obesity is the time spent sitting in front of the tube. Where I live the Corpus Christi Police Department and Nueces County Sheriff’s Department have almost a zero narrate in regards to protecting pedestrians, joggers and bicyclists. It is downright uncertain to perform an danger to be physically fit where I live. At the same time, the region in Corpus Christi is not, by any means, current in our country.

To slice the epidemic of obesity in the United States we need a multi-pronged attack on the pickle that includes help from our government for more healthful ways of life and a population that will say NO to eating junk and YES to expend.

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