Energy Movie Night: "The True Cost of Food" and "King Corn"

January 09, 2009,
6:30am - 8:30pm

Join the Massachusetts Sierra Club and the MIT Recycling Working Group of Support Staff Issues for their monthly Energy Movie Nights. "True Cost of Food" is an animation about the hidden cost of modern day food production that is anything but cheap. "King Corn" is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Two best friends from college on the east coast move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Movies start at 6:30pm followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. This is the 4th film and discussion series on the issue of sustainability and the future, cosponsored by Progressive Neighbors.