Catch a clip of King Corn

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Mar 28th 2008 @ 11:04AM

Remember back in October when I posted about the independent movie, King Corn? The movie wasn't in wide release when we first mentioned it, and so a number of you expressed interest in seeing it, but weren't able to find a screening anywhere. It's gotten wider distribution over the last six months, but for those of you who haven't been able to find the time or place to see it, I've got partially good news for you. A twenty minute clip of the film is now available on AOL video site, which means that I can embed that chunk of the movie here, for your viewing pleasure.

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Filed Under: Television/Film, Ingredients
Tags: ethanol, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, HighFructoseCornSyrup, Ian Cheney, IanCheney, Iowa, King Corn, KingCorn, movie, sugar, vegetables

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3-28-2008 @12:09PM mmwwah said... I saw the film in LA back in October, but it didn't *really* hit home until recently, when I spent two months in the UK, doing my shopping in English supermarkets.

The difference in packaged foods between the US and the UK was astonishing, due entirely to the presence or absence of HFCS (and its shy sibling maltodextrin). The same size, flavor, and brand of yogurt pot is 280 calories here and 130 in the UK. That stuff is eeeeevil.
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3-28-2008 @2:01PM NYCubsFan said... Great find. It is scary the amount of HFCS we consume today, especially when compared to 50 years ago.

Thank goodness my corn on the cob is OK. My wife has been gobbling it up since she learned it contained folic acid, and plans to add to the family are imminent.
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3-28-2008 @2:04PM Eric Reeves said... All questions of HCFS aside, that is a huge difference in calories. Are you sure the UK version didn't list the serving size as half the container?
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4-16-2008 @3:33PM yvette said... With our mono-mondo-agribusiness model, we're only growing single crops, mostly corn and soy, the impact has yet to be fully realized. The mystery missing bees and now the eminent demise of the bat population of the NE should raise huge questions, when we loose these major pollinators and insect controllers, we will be even more out of balance than we already are.
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