Activist prankster Morgan Spurlock casts a long shadow over Aaron Woolf's documentary, in which a pair of colorless eco-activists investigate the infiltration of subsidized corn and corn byproducts into every corner farm policies.
Eco-activists Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis became friends at Yale, only later learning that their great-grandfathers both had roots in tiny Greene, Iowa, a town in the middle of America's corn belt. Simultaneously intrigued by the coincidence and by alarming statistics about the prevalence of corn, often in hidden form, in the American diet, Ellis and Cheney decided to follow a single acre of corn from planting to supermarket shelves...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins