A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker Curt Ellis

Part 1; You can almost hear the voice of Gomer Pyle: “Surprise,” “Surprise,” “Surprise”! Of course, the big surprise may be on all of us. The documentary “King Corn” reveals the often unseen, and unreflected world of industrial food manufacturing, in this case, as it relates to the use and production of corn. The surprise is how much corn is a part of our daily diet of common foods that we eat, particularly the use of the sweetener additive, high fructose corn syrup.

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