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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. 0000029778 00000 n ��� 0000011887 00000 n King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. 0000043664 00000 n 0000062543 00000 n 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. Ian Cheney, Curtis Ellis, Aaron Woolf, Jeffrey K. 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