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1. by Colquhoun — @ 12:03:17

   "Try using logic when commenting, b/c it makes you look dumb." Yeah, wouldn't want to make myself look "dumb" by using logic. Try using correct sentence structure when you comment, because it makes you look like less of a jackass. So far as past generations eating corn goes, read pixiecherries' comment. Saying that the most abundant type of corn in the US is dent corn, rather than sweet corn, simply fuels my point.

2. by Montrel — @ 12:26:16

   "but it's shitty food. That's why we don't eat it raw." My mother and her parents used to eat it all the time. Sure, it wasn't as sweet as aweet corn b/c sweet corn has a high sugar content, unlike field corn.

3. by Atepa — @ 12:49:15

   "Corn-on-the-cob and canned and frozen corn at the grocery store come from sweet corn. The corn grown in gardens is also a variety of sweet corn. But the most abundant type of corn grown in the U.S. is actually FIELD, OR DENT, CORN." Straight from the National Corn Growers Association, even they call it field corn. Try using logic when commenting, b/c it makes you look dumb.

4. by THEODORE — @ 13:12:14

   "'Corn is grown in fields.' No duh, captain obvious." Then why the fuck would you say field corn? There's no such thing, because all corn is grown in fields. As you said: "It doesn't take a freaking rocket scientist to figure it out." Compare natural corn to this bright yellow "wonder" and you'll get a pretty good idea of how "great" it is. All the other uses for it are fine, but it's shitty food. That's why we don't eat it raw. How much of it do you think goes into those other products?

5. by COURTLAND — @ 13:35:13

   'to' figure it out

6. by Brown — @ 13:58:12

   Yellow dent #2 and field corn are the same damn thing. Field corn is just another name for dent corn. It doesn't take a freaking rocket scientist fo figure it out.

7. by Hernando — @ 14:21:11

   Ha, you really need to do some research if you think field corn is only used as livestock feed and HFCS. Products that use Corn: Adhesives, synthetic rubber finishes, tires, dry cell batteries, coatings on wood, paper, and metal, crayons and chalk, degradable plastics, dyes, toothpaste, wallpaper, carpet rugs, shoe polish, ink, latex paint, and many many more. I better not be seeing you use any of these products. "Corn is grown in fields." No duh, captain obvious.

8. by Jacoba — @ 14:44:10

   Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a documentary. It was an analogy, so get over yourself. Corn is grown in fields. Tell me somewhere other than a field, in which corn is grown. Sweet corn is grown in a field, and corn silage isn't a type of corn. It's a by-product of corn. The difference between sweet corn and yellow dent #2 is that one is grown to be eaten as corn, the other is grown to be eaten as HFCS. Therefor sweet corn is grown in much smaller fields, but fields none the less.

9. by MELINA — @ 15:07:09

   What does the media have to do with anything? I see this movie as anti-corn(and we're talking field corn), and you've just proved my point with this comment; "The idea is that nothing good can be said about this particular type of corn." Are you trying to convince me to do something?

10. by FILIPINA — @ 15:30:08

    Yellow dent #2 is field corn. "Tell me another type of corn." Sweet corn and corn silage. Oh and FYI, dent corn is the same thing as field corn. It's just another name for it.

11. by BERTRAM — @ 15:53:07

    It's "corn is bad and evil; we shouldn't grow corn." in the same way that Orwell Rolls in His Grave is "media control is bad and evil; we shouldn't allow media control to grow." Simplifying it to your level doesn't benefit anyone reading a review. In fact, it does the opposite. Build on and examine ideas. Don't remove the facts and turn them into a slogan for a five year old.

12. by Trish — @ 16:16:06

    "Field corn"? Tell me another kind of corn. This corn is yellow dent #2. That's the type I was referring to. It's a bullshit crop to begin with. Genetically engineering it and coating it with weed killer don't help. Tell me something that is good about yellow dent #2.

13. by WEBSTER — @ 16:39:05

    "The idea is that nothing good can be said about this particular type of corn." Exactly why I said the movie could be summed up in a few words, "corn is bad and evil; we shouldn't grow corn." And I am referring to field corn.

14. by NAZIH — @ 17:02:04

    As I said, they focused on this specific type of corn. The idea is that nothing good can be said about this particular type of corn. One example, that wasn't in the movie, was that the wife of the farmer who let them use the acre of land died, from the weed-killers getting into the water supply. Ian said they didn't include it, because though it would be a powerful point, they felt it would be disrespectful. He said that was the main reason for the farmer's move in the end.

15. by Evonna — @ 17:25:03

    As I said in my first post, I didn't like the movie b/c, as kylegetoutofme said, it only showed one side of the story. All they did was basically criticize corn. It was basically an anti-corn movie. In my opinion, and this is my opinion, the movie could be summed up in a few words, "corn is bad and evil; we shouldn't grow corn."

16. by LEWANNA — @ 17:48:02

    I was born in 1956. I know how food has changed. HFCS is horrible. It makes you crave more junk food. I quit drinking juice with HFCS two weeks ago and have lost eight lbs. I started drinking a lot more water. I am also eating lean meat, stone ground wheat crackers, frozen fruit, salad, etc. Anything without HFCS in it. I do not want to eat as much. I do not crave sugar any more. I can skip dinner and just have crackers and yougart and fruit and get full. I eat what my body tells me I need now.

17. by Wendell — @ 18:11:01

    Even if I'm wrong, we have utterly digressed, mostly because I'm kinda bullheaded and bitchy. My original point was that they didn't focus entirely on HFCS, and that they picked topics that revolved around this specific corn. The point of the film was this specific corn, so they chose from roughly 7 films worth of recordings and focused it mainly on four topics: the recent changes in farming, the growth of this corn, HFCS, and corn's effects on cattle.

18. by WAZIR — @ 18:34:00

    In reference to myself: "Also, it works, because they fatten the cow up to the max, before acidosis becomes lethal."

19. by Chess — @ 18:56:59

    not because 'they DON'T want acidosis to get to serious.'

20. by Kelcey — @ 19:19:58

    They kill the cow once it reaches slaughter weight, not because 'they want acidosis to get to serious.' Cattle can catch acidosis any time, and also only cattle with severe acute acidosis can die. If they don't have acute acidodis, most cattle can recover from acidosis.

21. by Raananah — @ 19:42:57

    They don't just give grain to cattle only at the feedlot. I was looking on Wikipedia and found your statement about the antibiotics. The source came from the Union of Concerned Scientists. It says on Wikipedia the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group, advocate raising cattle on pasture on other forages. Try and use unbiased sources in your arguments.

22. by LEYA — @ 20:05:56

    Yes, they fatten the cattle in a short amount of time with corn, because corn is cheap. Also, it works, because they fatten the cow up to the max, before acidosis becomes lethal.

23. by Hugiherahta — @ 20:28:55

    Farmers don't 'target the time it takes acidosis to become lethal'. They don't want it happening to the cattle b/c cattle will eat less and less. "The time the cattle begin to be fed corn is judged based on the average time acidosis takes to become lethal, in order for this time to coincide with the time the cattle is to be killed for meat." What if they give corn and other grains to cattle during the backgrounding part of beef production, or on the cow-calf part of the beef production?

24. by NASHIDA — @ 20:51:54

    In the end this system works, because it's not as if they will continue to feed the cattle corn and hope it lives to old age. They kill it before the problem gets too serious. The only flaw I find is that you're ignoring the obvious fact that, had the cattle not been killed before acidosis became severe, they would die. I'm not saying the farmer doesn't make a profit, because that would be an ignorant statement. If they didn't, they wouldn't use this system.

25. by Osip — @ 21:14:53

    I said it one and I'll say it again, they give cattle corn to decrease teh time to fatten up cattle. "Most cows have a diet that is composed of at least some forages(legumes or silage). In fact most beef cattle are raised on pasture from birth in the spring until fall(7-9 months). Cattle fattened in feedlots are fed small amounts of hay or straw supplemented with grain, soy and other ingredients in order to increase the energy density of the diet." -Wikipedia.

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