Upcoming Events: 626 Movie Night at the gym
When? Friday 4/20/12 @ 7:30pm
What are we watching? KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
Movie review from the Washington Post:
“Joining the recent noble tradition of fine muckraking documentaries about where cheap stuff comes from, “King Corn” pulls the husk off the scandal of modern food production, specifically the industrialized, subsidized, largely mythologized world of American farming…Lively, engaging and visually arresting…Directed with vigor and high visual style by Aaron Woolf, “King Corn” should be required viewing by anyone planning to visit a supermarket, fast-food joint or their own refrigerator. Funny, wise and sad, it suggests that being well-fed has nothing to do with being well-nourished.”
That’s right, we are going to spend Friday night foam rolling and watching a documentary about corn…You won’t want to miss it!
Feel free to bring any snacks/beverages- but you may want to avoid items containing corn syrup.
WOD: Hang Squat Snatches / Box Jumps / Wallballs