Tuesday, January 13, 2009

KING CORN (2007)

Another in a series of food-related movies that shows how fucked up the American diet is and how fucked up the food industry is. It's all just about making money and destroying small farms that were once the backbone of America, all at the expense of the health of the general population ... so pretty much all you have left are these HUGE farms, producing inedible corn crops that are then used for production of corn syrup, bio-fuels and cattle feed.
Really, no wonder diabetes and cancers are so common here, I'm surprised it's not worse.




Here is the PBS trailer: