King Corn (film) Quotes

King Corn (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . King Corn ended its run in 1970.

It features Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curtis Ellis as producer, Simon Beins, Johnny Dydo, and Sam Grossman in charge of musical score, and Ian Cheney, Sam Cullman, and Aaron G. Woolf as head of cinematography.

King Corn (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of King Corn (film) is 88 minutes long. King Corn (film) is distributed by Balcony Releasing.

King Corn (film) Quotes

• (Curt Ellis) "The corn fed to cattle is supplemented with low doses of antibiotics, that help them combat acidosis. Live stock now consumes 70% of the antibiotics in the United States."

• (Curt Ellis) "We are wondering if there's anyway you'd let us try and raise the money to actually buy that acre."
• (Unnamed) "Ah ha ha ha. You guys, you're gonna starve this country."

• (Unnamed) "What you're growing is an industrialized corn. It has been changed over the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years with one goal in mind, which is yield. The way it was done was, not to make every plant produce more so much, as to make the plants tolerate living close together. This plant is kind of an "urban" creature; it lives in these cities of corn. We're now up to close to 200 bushels of corn per acre. That's what, 10,000 pounds? 5 tons of food from 1 acre of land. It's an amazing amount of food."

• (Unnamed) "One great changes in the American food supply during the last 20 years is that we are now drinking many more calories than we were before. And there does seem to be something about drinking calories, in the form of soda for example, that just doesn't generate the stop signals."

• (Unnamed) "If you're standing in a field in Iowa, there's an immense amount of food being grown, none of it edible. The commodity corn -- nobody can eat it. It must be processed before we can eat it. It's a raw material, it's a feed-stock for all these other processes. And the irony is that an Iowa farmer can no longer feed himself."

• (Ian Cheney) "When my best friend Curtis and I graduated from college, we thought we were done with professors and were supposed to feel like we had our whole lives ahead of us."
• (Curt Ellis) "But we just heard some disconcerting news: some day, we were going to die; and maybe sooner than we thought. The first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter life-span than our parents. And it was because of what we ate."

• (Ian Cheney) "We've heard from some people that they think there is too much food."
• (Earl L. Butz) "Well it's the basis of our affluence now, the fact that we spend less on food. It's America's best-kept secret. We feed ourselves with approximately 16 or 17% of our take home pay. That's marvelous, that's a very small chunk to feed ourselves. And that includes all the meals we eat at restaurants, all the fancy doodads we get in our food system. I don't see much room for improvement there, which means we'll spend our surplus cash on something else."

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