Two best friends from college rent an acre of Iowa farm land to grow corn.
This is the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation and the high
fructose corn syrup explosion. Ammonia fertilized ground, genetically
modified seeds, weed herbicides, heavy equipment and emphasis on high
yield. The corn raised on this acre cannot be eaten off the cob, it must
be processed first. The corn kernels have very little protein and a
large amount of carbohydrates. Corn grown for eating is just the opposite, lots of protein and less carbohydrate with a good taste and tender kernel. The friends
follow their corn through the food system, learning troubling information about
how we eat and how we farm.
Their experiment did not turn out at all like they
expected. They went into this project thinking they would grow corn that they could just go
out to the field, pick and eat. The small farmer doesn't exist anymore,
he must take up acreage from the neighbors that don't want to grow, bigger is
better. Machinery allows a farmer to do it all and do it all well.
3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
88 min, Doc directed by Aaron Woolf with Bob
Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz, Dawn and Ian Cheney, Don and Elna Clikeman, Ken Cook,
Loren Cordain, Curt Ellis, Audrae Erickson, Dean Jarrett.
Note:
Blockbuster 3 1/2*, imdb 7.0 out of 10, 96% critic 77% audience on Rotten
Tomatoes.
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