A 2007 documentary, King Corn, comes to the screen at Bahrain Cinema Club tonight at 7pm.
The film follows college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn.
Coincidentally, the journey takes them back to where both their families have roots.
During the process they examine the role increasing production has on American society and spotlight the role of government subsidies.
With the help of friendly neighbours, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidised 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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