I just saw this movie, called King Corn, a documentary about two guys from Boston who move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn to discover exactly where it goes. The film is really quite eye-opening in many ways, because the corn they grow actually is barely edible without processing, and will mostly be used as animal feed, or be made into sweetener (corn syrup). Another stunning fact is that cows fed by corn actually are simply waiting for death, as it is not natural for them to be fed corn-based feed, and it just fattens them up. A cut of meat from a corn-fed cow that has 9g of saturated fat will have only 3.5g fat if it were grass-fed, the natural way. (I believe that’s what the statistic was..)
If you have a chance to see this movie, it is truly worth it, and it just shows how much our economy and our nation is changing. It is nearly impossible to survive as a small family farm that is not a subsistence farm, for, in the case of these two, it actually cost them money to produce and sell the corn, and the only profit they received is from the government paying them because they are producing corn. It should be interesting to see where our nation will be going in the coming years.
On another note, look forward to more frequent, normal posts now… perhaps a few projects, even 
I plan on repurposing a Dish TV satellite dish for long-range Wi-Fi… stick around
Thanks to KingCorn.net for the photo..
