King Corn 1. What element found in the narrators' hair was derived from corn? Carbon 2.

According to the film, native corn originated in Southern Mexico and thrived in Iowa. Gradually over time, how many types of corn came to dominate the entire middle of the country? Only one type, yellow color 3. What year did the Farm Program change from paying farmers not to grow corn to paying them to grow it? 1973 4. How long did it take for the narrators to plant 31,000 seeds of corn in their acre? 18 minutes only 5. What is the corn that the narrators plant genetically modified to resist? Liberty-linked corn 6. According to the film, why are cattle fed corn? Because corn is lower cost to produce the energy in animals and to feed a huge numbers of cattles 7. According to the film, how much saturated fat is in beef from corn fed cattle in comparison to grass fed cattle? Corn fed cattles have 9 grams of saturated fat and grass fed cattles have 1.3 grams 8. Why is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) used more as a sweetener now than it was in the past? Lot of technology and enzyme protein to break down the glucose bond 9. How much has the use of added sweeteners increased in the last 30 years? Went up 30% 10. How does eating corn affect the cattles health? Makes problem in digestion so they make up a lot of waste, also 11. According to the film, how is the nutritional value different in corn grown in the United States today to the corn originally from Mexico? Mexico corns had higher protein and other nutritional values and current corn in United States has much more starch which processed into sweet. Also, United States corn has high calorie and metabolic ingredients. 12. According to the film, why do farmers continue to grow corn even though they lose money on the crop? Government gives them a good percentage of money, according to how much they lose on the corn.