12/01 2009 Agriculture Movie Series at Vermont Law School: King Corn
Presented by the National Lawyers' Guild, Rural Vermont, & the South Royalton Market
Vermont Law School, Oakes Hall, Room 007, SOUTH ROYALTON
7 pm
Free
King Corn on Thursday, December 1st
Following the film will be a presentation and discussion about Rural Vermont's work to counter the consolidation of our food system by advocating for common-sense regulations that support direct sales, rural economies, and local food options.
A documentary about two friends who journey from Boston to Iowa to plant, tend, and harvest one acre of corn, and then watch as it travels from their field into the industrial food supply. The Washington Post hails King Corn as “taking what could be a tiresome agri-civics lesson and delivering a lively, funny, sad and even poetic treatise on the reality behind America's cherished self-image as the breadbasket of the world.”
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Hemp and the Rule of Law on Tuesday, November 17th
Following the film will be a presentation and discussion about Rural Vermont's recent work to legalize hemp in Vermont, and the national efforts underway to bring the crop back to American soil.
This documentary blends history with current events and traces hemp’s legendary past in US agriculture and chronicles the heated debate to return the crop to American farmers. In the last decade of the twentieth century, consumer demand for hemp products has resulted in the crop’s resurgence on farms throughout the western world. American farmers are not permitted to grow hemp because the US Drug Enforcement Agency makes no distinction between hemp and marijuana. A decade after the crop’s revival in other parts of the world, American farmers are still fighting for the right to grow this profitable and common sense crop.