America’s fast-food empire is fueled by a familiar friend: corn. High fructose corn syrup makes our sodas sweet, corn-fed beef makes our burgers fat, and corn oil crisps our fries. As college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis find out, their junk food generation has grown up eating so much corn that if you test their hair– it’s actually made of the stuff. KING CORN follows Ian and Curt to a tiny town in the middle of Iowa, where they plant and grow an acre of America’s most powerful crop, and attempt to follow its fate as food. What they find is alternately hilarious and horrifying.

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