Ian Cheney, Co-Producer/Writer

"Our one-acre lawn would be growing a giant grass whose ancestors had looked very different. Native corn originated in southern Mexico, but found a happy home in Iowa, a land of fertile soils and humid summers. Gradually, one type of corn replaced all the others, a versatile crop named Yellow Dent #2, which over time came to dominate the entire middle of the country."

Curt Ellis, Co-Producer/Writer

"The corn fed to cattle is supplemented with low doses of antibiotics that help them combat acidosis. Livestock now consume 70% of the antibiotics in the United States. But antibiotics also help cattle survive the conditions of confinement. This feedlot holds more than 100,000 cows at a time."

Michael Pollan, Author

"If you take that meal, if you take that McDonald's meal, you don't realize it when you eat it, but you?re eating corn. Beef has been corn-fed. Soda is corn, it's all high fructose corn syrup it's the main ingredient."

Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group, President

"Corn is the crop we've spent the most money on over the past ten years, and so we've got mountains of grain all over the Midwest because the subsidy programs keep the production going full blast."

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