Speaker Biographies for the 2009 Organic Conference

11Jan09

The speaker biographies for the ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future 2009 Organics Conference are up and running for your viewing pleasure.

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It’s Corny! Potluck dinner and free screening of King Corn

29Nov08

About King Corn: a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives the fast-food nation. Best friends, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, move to the US 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.

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Tags: Agriculture, corn, Food, fructose, genetic engineering, modified, pervasive, sugar, syrup, system