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Roti: New ‘King Corn' documentary is not so innocent

By Lura Roti, Reporter
Dec 6, 2007
Dec 6, 2007

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If your freezer is anything like mine was growing up, it is full of meat neatly wrapped in white freezer paper with marker initials indicating what is inside - HB, for hamburger or LB for lambburger (I grew up on a sheep ranch in Newell, S.D.).

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