King corn / Mosaic Films ; Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; a Mosaic Films Inc. production ; a film by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney ; a co-production of Mosaic Films, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney are best friends and ecological activists who met at Yale and learned that their great-grandfathers were from the same small town, Greene, Iowa. Their existential shock at learning that their " ... generation was at risk of having a shorter life span than our parents,...
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| Corporate Authors: | , |
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| Other title: | At head of title: Balcony Releasing presents At head of title: Bullfrog Films presents Additional title on container: You are what you eat |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, NY] :
Mosaic Films,
[2007]
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| Summary: | Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney are best friends and ecological activists who met at Yale and learned that their great-grandfathers were from the same small town, Greene, Iowa. Their existential shock at learning that their " ... generation was at risk of having a shorter life span than our parents, and it was because of what we ate" prompts a return to their ancestral home--a farming town of just over 1000 people--to spend a year planting and harvesting an acre of corn. In the course of playing their minuscule part in the burgeoning corn industry, they learn about government subsidies, ammonia fertilizer, massively increased yields, and how the system favors mass production over small family farms. There is also the ubiquity of corn in food, from corn-fed beef to high-fructose syrup that sweetens sodas and other products. The film is a helpful tutorial on American corn production past and present, and an eminently watchable inquiry into the politics of food and public health |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (90 min.) |
| Production Credits: | Edited by Jeffrey K. Miller ; Camera, Sam Cullman, Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney ; original music by The WoWz with Bo Ramsey and Spencer Chakedis ; written by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Jeffrey K. Miller ; produced and directed by Aaron Woolf. |
| Participant or Performer: | Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis; commentators, Stephen Macko, Chuck Pyatt, Mike Majewski, Jack Reid, Ricardo Salvador, Troy Magnusen, Sandra Jaeger, Dawn Cheney, Rich Johnson, Elizabeth Stewart, Richard Shook, Cindy Carpenter, Al Marth, Paul Kepple, Elna Clikeman, Don Clikeman, Diane Black, Michael Pollan, Bruce Cheney, Danielle Heeren, Scott McGregor, T. Oliver, Bob Bledsoe, Sue and Dean Jarrett, Allen Trenkle, Loren Cordain, Ken Cook, Audrae Erickson, Walter Willett, Fraz Mendez, Farida Khan, Sabita Moktan, Earl Butz. |
| Language: | In English with optional captions in English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | DVD version; title from title frames (viewed August 19, 2013). |