FOOD NEWS: A Conversation with “King Corn” Filmmaker
Part 1: A conversation with filmmaker Curt Ellis about his new documentary “King Corn”, the film that may open eyes across America. Surprisingly, corn is present in some form or another, in almost everything on the American plate. And, none more so, than through the food ingredient “high fructose corn syrup” (HFCS). Is it a good idea to have “HFCS” present in so many of our foods without prior public debate, or adequate science to measure its impact on the long-term health of adults, and especially our children? Should our standard meals be unnaturally skewed toward a corn based diet, in the first place? This interview, along with video clips from the documentary, may not provide the answers here, but it’s a good beginning for further thought and reflection. What do you think?
It’s not even just HFCS, but things like modified corn starch and what not you can find in nearly everything. And Capnvideo, watch out for Campbells soup. Many of them contain monosodium glutamate or yeast extract to trick you into thinking they’re good. MSG has been known to cause health problems.
Yes, corn is useful, but the government subsidies have caused an over-production. The result is an unnatural trading of commodities, and in this case, an unnatural means of manufacturing food
Make yourself aware of these industry sponsored advocates on YouTube who are lying about the safety of High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Robyn Flipse – watch?v=D1pGsaaDrrI
Neva Cochran – watch?v=BHaV_B4ZRgY
Brooke Douglas – watch?v=etE3BKWklzg
Stephanie Green – watch?v=YNgCH3__8pE
Chere Bork – watch?v=Mhh32gLkVXM
Kristine Clark – watch?v=vplp1ofzqBc
James M. Rippe – watch?v=QimveYJcJWo
@dairyprincessx3 – People can choose what they eat; they just have to read every single label of every single thing they buy if they want to avoid corn syrup. You cannot deny the correlation of time over HFCS and Obesity. We can bicker about causation all day long. But at the end of the day, it is not in doubt that the liver converts ALL fructose into fat. Nature made the stuff scarce for a reason. Now its in everything, and now we are a nation of fat asses…just sayin’…
Fructose is a POISON to your body……your liver doesnt know what to do with the stuff. dont use it and watch the weight drop off……..dont drink coca cola and other hight fructose products….the stufff is even in Campbells tomato soup
hey guess what.. organic foods are almost no different then regularly processed foods. i would know i have a masters in food and nutrition and a bachelors in animal science. i know its easy to believe media.. but get your information from a reliable source… not a PETA group or an other extremist group. try USDA.
I dont think you get it… we are not having a choice anymore, when more that 70% of what you purchase in stores is made of the stuff, what choice!!! we need more organic/natural foods especially vegetables.
So, I like the way these movies try and make every corn farmer suffer. People can chose what to eat. Corn is NOT going to kill you. It’s a useful product. Now we can make fuel out of it. Amazing.. yet people make these movies.
Yea the ad for HFCS is still up, they’re worried about loosing money
RECENT HFCS UPDATE:
Some US food producers have dropped the term High-Fructose Corn Syrup and replaced it with:
- Glucose-Fructose Syrup
- Glucose Syrup.
These are alternate terms for High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Make yourself aware of these new names when purchasing packaged foods.
the industry paying for an Ad one the screen of this video! how much money are they spending?
The true rulers of our world don’t want a well informed well educated population capable of critical thinking. If they were, there would be no rulers.
We are being poisoned through our food and drinking water. The question is why?
I can’t disagree with you with regard to feeding the world but corn ethanol is a bad solution to our energy “needs”. Most people ignore the fact that it only has about 70% of the energy density of gasoline but ethanol is not necessarily the problem. The way we produce it is and their are more efficient ways to do this than with corn.
The rats are jumping ship.
CHEMRISK – a research company hired by the Corn Refiners has recently taken down it’s YouTube page.
The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the high-fructose corn syrup ad campaign. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.
See the last remaining ChemRisk video at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.
Contact the President of the CRA and share your thoughts regarding HFCS
Audrae Erickson
President
Corn Refiners Association
1701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006-5806
Phone: 202-331-1634
Fax: 202-331-2054
pressinquiry@corn(.)org
ugh! where can i see this today!???
For an excellent look at the role corn plays in factory farming, and the role that factory farming plays in feeding America, google up a copy of “power Steer” an essay by Michael Pollan.
How about water hyacinth for a biomass fuel? It also cleans the water that it grows in…I think of corn as a very nutrient intensive crop. I’ve also read personal accounts, in Countryside magazine, of persons who actually got 10 mpg less w/ ethanol blended fuel. The technologies are great, but there are also tried and true organic methods, plus farming on a smaller scale, and being more regional and local would also cut down on transportation costs…
You are talking with an agronomist. There is no other crop that can produce food and energy more efficiently for a world population that has passed the brink. fertilizer usage is actually decreasing due to GPS technologies and hybrids producing higher yields with less inputs. I am personally not a huge fan of HFCS, but #2 yellow dent is not the devil either. I personally wish that the US gov’t would make it law that all gas and diesel contained oxygenated fuels such as ethanol.
the 200 billion in fossil fuel subsidies that allows for the use of artificial fertiliser to be cost affective
What subsidies?
COrn=good, High Fructose Corn Syrup= not so good at all
MAN MADE SUGAR IS EVIL- Hfcs
Corn on the brain. If you are concerned about high fructose corn syrup, join a campaign to get cola companies to switch to beet or cane sugars at thepoint[dot]com and search for corn syrup …I just signed my name.
Hopefully this starts the path to better corporate responsibility. Cola companies seem to use cane or beet sugar in countries outside the U.S. Why not in the US?
when I went to rigel 5 they do not have corn there, instead they eat uiop. I think it is better than corn. they do not make it into syrup. uiop can be used as fuel too, but only on the newest vrnaas.