King Corn

I watched a movie last night called King Corn.

It was a documentary styled film that told the tale of 2 friends from Boston who moved to Greene IA to grown an acre of corn after discovering that their body composition was primarily based on corn. They grew the acre of corn and tried to track where it went. What they found was that the majority of corn ends up as animal feed , or as High Fructose Corn Syrup. They also found that the corn that is grown in my neck of the prairie , isn't edible at all, until it is refined. It is essentially an industrial raw material, heavily subsidized at that, and made me think more about where the food we eat comes from , and about the area we live in. It motivated me to want to start a garden (even more than I already wanted too) and check out food labels a little more, and avoid fast food even more than I already do.

After doing some more research on the subject of corn and the ag industry, and where I live. I hadn't realized how heavily funded farmers are by our government, and how much corn contributes to obesity and diabetes. About how we are what we eat, and I dont want to be corn.

I am fine with industry turning it into plastics or ethanol , they need to get their resources from somewhere , why not grow it ?

Frankly I was a tad disgusted to find that most of the food available on the market is crap and in its raw form wouldn't even be considered edible. Fast food , and most of the products on the shelves at stores.

When I moved into the country back in 2008 , I knew that I was moving into an industrial zone. I made no qualms about it. I wanted to get away from the city and have my own space to share with the person that is now my wife. To have some quiet and have a place to call home,where I felt at home . I will admit that I do love where I live. I love having land and being on the open prairie.

I never have been much of a meat eater , or a corn eater at that.

I'd rather be a fruit, or a vegetable.