Green Team Showing Documentary on 'King Corn'

A documentary examining the production and marketing of corn in the U.S. will be presented at a free movie night at the municipal complex.

The Warren Township Green Team, sponsored by the Warren Township Committee, will show the environmental documentary “King Corn” at 7 p.m. March 20 in the Susie Boyce Municipal Court Room.

The movie is open to the public and there is no charge.  

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the 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.  The movie is informative and provides and educational/learning tool. 

Refreshments and a discussion will follow the film. 

Anyone interested in attending can reserve seats by emailing David Gabel