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King Corn the movie - I've been asked to defend you guys
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Ozzie
Posted 3/5/2009 08:38 (#632356 - in reply to #631332)
Subject: RE: King Corn the movie - I've been asked to defend you guys


The premise of the movie was that what I grow is "crap".  They think that I am responsible for making americans obese because food prices have been too cheap due to subsidies.  They want to go back to a subsistance form of agriculture and have farmers live like the amish. Apparently, the only subsidies that are bad are the ones that you are not getting - the film makers were quite happy to take a government subsidy from PBS to make the movie. Sorry, those kids came from privilege and are Michael Pollen followers that don't know what a hard day's work is all about.  The sad thing is, that is the only picture of agriculture that some will see.  Yes, it angered me.
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