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DESCRIPTION:\nThe evening begins with an optional social hour and pot luck supper at 
 6:00 pm,\nfollowed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion at the 
 end of the film.\n\nKING CORN\n\nThis alarming documentary is the humorous 
 and touching story of two best friends who decide to move to Iowa to grow 
 an acre of corn ─ after finding out (through laboratory hair analysis) 
 that their bodies were made primarily out of… corn.  The film traces a 
 year in the life of two friends, but it's really about the history of corn 
 in modern America and the filmmakers’ relationship with this pivotal crop 
 of agribusiness.  Americans are so “corny” because almost every product 
 in conventional grocery stores ─ from steaks to chicken breasts to 
 condiments to desserts to tomato sauce to frozen entrees to hamburgers to 
 aspirin to soft drinks to baby formula to vegetable oil to vegetable broth 
 to cereal to cold cuts to ice cream to toothpaste to disposable diapers to  
 vitamins (the list goes on) are ultimately derived from corn, either in the 
 form of high fructose corn syrup or from corn-based animal feed.  The 
 filmmakers visit cattle feedlots which hold thousands of animals dining on 
 corn-based feed and learn that too much corn causes the cattle to 
 eventually develop an acidic condition in one of their stomachs (acidosis) 
 that eventually kills them.  The filmmakers trace the history of corn 
 subsidies in the U.S.  The current system started only about 30 years ago 
 when the Farm Bill was changed and the emphasis was put on industrial-style 
 monocropping.  Agribusiness is the ruin of the world ─ see it close up 
 for yourself.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/27/18604233.php
SUMMARY:King Corn
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/27/18604233.php
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