We watched this documentary last night. You Are What You Eat, the tagline reads. And what we eat in America is corn. Lots of it.

Mostly because in America we happen to grow lots and lots of corn. It’s versatile, it’s cheap, and it’s in everything. The trade-off is that we spend less on food but more on, say, healthcare. Because most of the corn that we’re eating is just plain bad for us.

It’s a surprisingly light-hearted film, given the subject. It’s especially good to watch if you just need that added motivation to finally move onto a farm and grow all of your own food.

Or, at the very list, give up on corn syrup for good. That stuff’ll kill you.