Over the past few weeks I have learned many mind numbing facts about our food and what it may be doing to our bodies. These facts seem to be unlimited arguing that the food we eat everyday is “eating” at us from the inside out. From Michael Pollan’s to Barbara Kingsolver’s attack on the United States agricultural industry, it seems as if I’ve been let in on a secret blueprint of how exactly the world will come to an end. Their stories and research make the idea of an Armageddon to be merely a bad Ben Affleck movie as it seems as though the world will not cease to exist from an end all royal rumble but rather as a result of corn as it has long stalked its prey. Pollan has not discovered anything new, but more or less reiterated the phrase “the cream of the crop will rise”. The crop has risen, too fast causing these authors to worry and bash the food they consume daily, however each author struggles to offer a universal solution out of this “dreadful” lifestyle. Kingsolver moved in order to hide from the situation, but not all citizens of the world are able to migrate let alone afford untouched land. Economically there seems to be no solution to this massive eating disorder and it seems as if there never will be an answer.
King Corn sheds light on the fact that this agricultural debacle is unstoppable and unsolvable. The movie concludes with the dream of changing our food industry concluding as well. These film makers have no real way to combat this dilemma, so we as viewers and eaters are left asking, “What now?” The ideas and facts of Pollan, Kingsolver, and King Corn are all quite upsetting but it is the inability of these experts to produce a solution that is alarming. As I finish my writing I too, (although I wouldn’t call myself an expert) leave readers with no answers to the problem and leave the crops to someone else.
P.S. Maybe someday we’ll get lucky and global warming will kill all the crops because I feel that it won’t be us to put these crops to rest.
P.S. Talk is cheap!
