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October 27, 2009 by fbacchus
Food is all around you. Since I can remember I have loved eating meat, weather it was beef, chicken, or lamb. Meat was a large part of my diet. Most kids grow out of the “I do not want to eat my vegetables” stage but I never did. To this day I dislike eating most if not all vegetables. Therefore I ate a lot of chicken and beef. Whether it was a fast food restaurant or even at home, meat was always my way of curing hunger.
I will admit at the beginning of the movie I thought “King Corn” was going to be a very boring documentary type film, however as I started watching it I changed my mind completely. I now believe that “King Corn” is a great educational film. Never have I been so disgusted by what I ate. Corn is all around you, whether it is in the form of corn syrup or even in the diet of the meat you eat. Corn has dire affects as well. When the documentary said that the corn fed cows have 150 days to be slaughtered before they died, I was very shocked. Our beef that we get on our table is coming from cows that are barely alive. It is no wonder that many sicknesses come from eating steak, and burgers. Corn is not meant to be digested at such alarming rates, especially without exercise. The cattle that get slaughtered have no freedom. They imprison the cattle in small areas without space or freedom to graze. Some people might not think this is a problem but consider the question, how would you feel if the only freedom you had was to stand in the same spot and eat what was forced on you? It doesn’t seem as good anymore if you think that animal have feelings and rights too.
After watching “King Corn” I tried to alter my day-to-day diet. It was a lot difficult however. I remember specifically the first day of my diet I was at work, I got really hungry. Usually I would just go upstairs and buy McDonalds. However I stopped and I thought about what I could buy that really had no form of corn product inside. Chicken nuggets and any burger had traces of corn inside; even the drinks might have high fructose corn syrup. Finding something that has no corn was a lot harder than I thought it was. However if you try, and pack your own lunch periodically your body will feel better, even if it’s only for a few days. It’s important to try to change than to just sit around and hoping someone does something about it.
It’s really interesting that you actually tried to find something you could eat that didn’t have traces of corn in it. This is why it’s so hard to cut corn out of daily lives: almost everything we eat can be traced back to a form of corn ingredient.
Eating meat is something I can’t seem to have control over. For my religion I sometimes give up eating meat for lent, and it is the hardest thing to do for me. What’s dinner without meat on the side?
Your love for meats and poultry is fascinating to me because I am only a fan of poultry not so much a fan of the meats. Therefore when I saw “King Corn”, I was somewhat relieved to I do not eat too much meat. The question you posed for the reader was great, it personalized your comment and made the reader feel what was going on just like “King Corn” did.
Your attempt to give up corn-fed beef is encouraging, I tried the same but failed in giving up corn products. Especially in a city like New York where everything is fast paced and we always search for the quickest meal. It is really hard to avoid corn products and your effort makes me want to try harder since you love meats and chicken so much.
Hopefully, you do not give up on reducing corn products too quickly.