Quaker Meetings
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Date(s) - Friday, February 10, 2012
7:30 pm
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King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, 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.
Everyone is welcome at Hadley Memorial Fund programs. Please respect others in the audience, the lecturers, and the performers. Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children. Video and sound recording are not permitted except with advance permission of the lecturer or performer. The Hadley Memorial Fund
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Kennett Friends Meeting
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