Sometimes I get in these contemplative moods. When something bugs me or I find it facinating I almost obsess on it. In fact, I love to dissect things in my mind over and over. I'm the same way with music. However this particular subject has absolutely nothing to do with music. It's about a documentary I watched over the weekend.
Ironically, it has to do with corn. After reading Debbi's post on her list of things she loved about Iowa, I could just see all that golden corn shining in the sun. Late last week a mom friend of mine let me borrow a DVD called King Corn. If you haven't do yourself a favor and rent/netflix it. It will get your mind flowing and questioning, perhaps, why a bag of groceries of basic items cost so much(we spend around $20/bag) and yet there's piles of corn stocked up as high as the sky that is completely inedible.
It was made by 2 guys from Boston who became college friends and coincedentally their great grandfathers were from the same town back in Iowa. They were interested in their DNA and what they were made of. Upon being tested, they found out that most of the stuff in their hair was corn based. So that inspired the guys to do this documentary. The moved themselves to Iowa to grow an acre of corn and track where it goes and how it gets in their (our) bodies.
You'll be amazed with their journey. You'll learn about some things that you may find disturbing.... such as the amount of corn that's grown, what kind it is and where it goes... or doesn't. You'll also learn about the cows that corn feeds and what it does to their bodies which is what keeps playing over and over in my mind.
Having watched this has again made me question what's going on in our government. As a nation we are ignorant of so many things that go on. It's things like this little documentary that open our eyes, raise that blind curtain and allow us to really know information that our government and big business either doesn't want us to know or volutneers to tell us.
Check out the links embedded in this article.... do some googling too..... you'll start to wonder why the obesity and diabetic rates are so high. If you're drinking diet cokes, you're only kidding yourself. It's not any better than the real thing. Plan on having diabetes later (or sooner) in life if you drink sodas daily.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about various things lately so more blogs will come in the future.
July
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I would be interested in seeing this, but unless amelia orders it, i probably never will have the chance. haha if we eat or didn't eat everything we were suppose or not suppose to eat, we wouldn't eat or drink anything. haha
i know amelia wants to see it, but i don't know if the store has it. i'd be glad to bring it home when i come and you could watch it while i'm there. maybe we could have a viewing of it as a group! :)
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