This morning I watched the movie "King Corn" as part of my research for today (I decided I would research a little bit each day-super organized eh lol). It's a documentary that follows two college grads., Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, into the heart of agriculture in America-Greene, Iowa, where they farm corn on an acre of land in hopes they will be able to trace it's route through the American food distribution chain. There are a lot of really disturbing facts covered in this documentary. I would highly suggest/recommend this film to anyone that consumes food distributed in America- you have the right to know what exactly your putting into your body (for all of you that live off your own homegrown supply of food- your off the hook! hehehe). It really shocked me that so much of our food has corn in it. It also freaked me out that the type of corn Ian and Curt grew (along with all the corn that is grown for commercial distribution in Iowa) is not actually for eating and therefore the farmers growing these crops can not even feed their family with it- it is grown primarily to act as a filler or sweetener for other food products. Another disturbing fact- the cattle raised on feed lots to be slaughtered and eventually end up packaged in the meat section of a food store are fed corn. Their stomaches are not made for an all corn diet and as a result many develop acidosis and if not treated die. In order to avoid losing cattle too early or not being able to use their meat due to a disease- cattle farmers have managed to avoid acidosis stricken cattle by putting antibiotics in their feed- livestock consumes 70% of antibiotics in the U.S. In addition the amount of saturated fat found in the meat from corn fed cattle is 9grams! In grass fed cattle its 1.3 grams.- And we wonder why America has such a problem with obesity......Anyways as much as I feel like I could keep writing about this documentary- I'm not going to. Have an excellente night everyone!