Here is an extended Video Clip of KING CORN. I saw this film a few months ago at the La Milpa Organica Farm potluck. I enjoyed that evening very much. We at Pizza, and there was a lot of community spirit. Do you think energetically we are effected by what we think or possibly by what others think of us? Just asking what you think. “If you’re standing in a field in Iowa, there’s an immense amount of food being grown, none of it edible. The commodity corn, nobody can eat. It must be processed before we can eat it. It’s a raw material—it’s a feedstock for all these other processes. And the irony is that an Iowa farmer can no longer feed himself.” —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma

Date:   6/16/2008 8:03:06 AM ( 16 y ago)

5:41 AM
June 16,08

"I feel that the seeds of an improved food economy
and food culture will come from forging reconnections everywhere––
between farmers and consumers at produce markets and in CSA subscriiption farms;
between constituents and legislators collaborating on an agricultural policy
that makes us healthy; between eaters and the food we eat."
—Aaron Woolf, KING CORN director



Here is an extended Video Clip on Utube
for KING CORN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDurZc5Yr6c&feature=related


Also here:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/

There is a wondeful Preview of
King Corn here on this Independent Lens PBS
site:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/corn.html


“If you’re standing in a field in Iowa,
there’s an immense amount of food being grown,
none of it edible. The commodity corn,
nobody can eat. It must be processed before we can eat it.
It’s a raw material—it’s a feedstock for all these other processes.
And the irony is that an Iowa farmer can no longer feed himself.”
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollen Quote:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/corn.html



This film traces the experience of two men
who set out to get intimate with Corn.

they discover that Corn is in many things we eat.

They set out to grow an acre of corn in Iowa.

The film does not put down High Fructose Corn Syrup.
It just points out that people who eat too much of eat
can get their legs cut off from Diabetes.

It is difficult not to eat too much High Fructuse Corn Syrup
the film suggests.

It is in the hair analysis of these two men who grow the acre of corn.

It is in the majority of foods that are sold in our supermarkets.

It is subsidized by the Farm Bill, called the Food Bill by numbers
of Organic Devotees.

Having your legs cut off from Diabetes and getting addicted
to the sugar in Coca-cola can be an Enlightening experience.

Coca-Cola, I understand, is excellent for cleaning overs,
however, this has has more to do with the Phosphoric Acid
than the high Fructose form Corn Ryrup.

Earl Buts, the former Secretary of Agriculture is to be congratulated
for the role he played in making Corn one of the pirmary products
Subsidized by our tax dollar.

In the film, the two corn growers visit Mr. Butts.

They also visit with a man who lost 300 pounds from changing his diet.

Gabriel Cousens, M.D., has a new book out on getting rid of Diabetes
through eating raw food.

This film suggests that eating less corn syrup may also help get rid
of Diabetes.

In recent developments, our excess corn, subsidized by the tax dollar
of those who still can pay taxes in America, is not being used as a Bio-Fuel.

Bio-Fuel produces Ethanol from our subsidized corn.

Bio-Fule is one of the great new products sponsored by the Bio-Tech Development.

There are a number of people in Pakisttan, Mexido, and other parts of the world
that are not a bit angry at the USA for using its corn for Bio-Fuels rather than
growing it into food.

A Video I watched last night, link here, suggests that the USA is the subject
o a lot of new hatred because of our focus on Bio-fuels that that report says
is causing starvation.

The corn that the two gentlemen grew in King Corn wasn't edible, as King Corn
shows. It was basically Geneticially Modified (GMO) corn. In the film they spit
out the corn they grow, but thanks to the subsidy from the Governmment,
they earn money for their acre of corn.

The corn they grew was better suited for Coca-Cola and high Fructose Corn Syrup.

We had some delicious corn last night for dinner here
at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community.

It was locally grown. Someone got it from the Farmer's Market.
I am not sure if it was organically grown, but it was very delicious.
Local organic corn comes in here around August, I imagine.

Do you think that when people hate us around the world
it causes health concerns?

Do you think there are Forces at Work that are activited
when we are hated by starving people from around the world?

I wonder if we could do a little metaphysical research on this.

Do you think there is any connection between the recent tornadoes
that destroyed an Ethenol Bio-Fuel growing town in Iowa the other day
and the hatred that was projected toward Ethenol growers from Pakistan
and other countries?

Do you think energetically we are effected by what we think
or possibly by what others think of us?

These are only questions.
Let me know what you think.

RELATED BLOGS AND LINKS:

Ethanol Growing Town Uprooted in Iowa
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1195791

Food vs. BioFuels?

83% increase in food prices due to Ethanol growers.
See this:

Corn: Do you think it is better to grow it for Bio-Fuel
or to feed people? Some folks in Iowa grew it for Bio-Fuel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeKBVOTnxIY&feature=related

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