Go to Inside Bay Area original
OAKLAND — Corn isn't just for dinner anymore. In fact, it's for just about everything but dinner.
That's what Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, former college friends and co-producers of the documentary "King Corn," discovered when they spent a year tracing what happened to the corn they planted on their own green acre in Iowa after it was harvested.
Director Aaron Woolf documented Cheney and Ellis' journey into the dark heart of modern farming.
Corn — overwhelmingly genetically modified — is in just about every processed item, from hamburgers to aspirin, from soft drinks to baby formula.
more...
No comments:
Post a Comment