King Corn (2007)

Curt Ellis: Self

Quotes 

• Ian Cheney : When my best friend Curtis and I graduated from college, we thought we were done with professors and were supposed to feel like we had our whole lives ahead of us.

  Curt Ellis : But we just heard some disconcerting news: some day, we were going to die - and maybe sooner than we thought. The first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter life-span than our parents. And it was because of what we ate.

• Curt Ellis : The corn fed to cattle is supplemented with low doses of antibiotics, that help them combat acidosis. Live stock now consumes 70% of the antibiotics in the United States.

• [last lines] 

  Curt Ellis : We are wondering if there's anyway you'd let us try and raise the money to actually buy that acre.

  Pyatt : Ah ha ha ha. You guys, you're gonna starve this country.