King Corn
A Documentary Film
Monday, 05 Nov 2007 at 7:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
One acre of corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside - and the American diet. 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 skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, 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. The 80-minute film will also be shown on Wednesday, November 7 at 6:30 PM in the LeBaron Hall Auditorium, before a panel discussion featuring Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture
- Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Ag
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Practical Farmers of Iowa
- Slow Food Ames
- Sociology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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