Berry's usual, perfunctory response to the question "What can city people do?"
What is "Eat responsibly"
100
Money paid to farmers to help make a living from growing otherwise unprofitable crops.
What is a subsidy?
100
Happy meal toys, tie-ins with cartoons and video games, and signs placed in schools.
How does junk food market to children?
100
Civil unrest prompted by a shortage in the food supply.
What is a food riot?
100
Correspondant for the New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for exposing corruption in the Chinese government.
Who is David Barboza?
200
The two sides of a "specialized" agricultural system that show how we have lost sight of ourselves as part of a process.
What are producers and consumers?
200
The amount of corn in a "bushel".
What is 56 pounds?
200
Health problem that has been increasingly a concern as kids consume more and more fast food.
What is Obesity?
200
"Grading out", now done to more than 30% of some fruit crops.
What is the disposal of good, edible crops because they don't LOOK like foods presented in commercials?
200
One of the stars of the documentary KING CORN, he was greatly inspired by the article "The Pleasures of Eating."
Who is Michael Pollen?
300
Berry's description of buying food without knowing its background or what it includes.
What is to buy a "pig in a poke"?
300
Three other plants that have evolved, like corn, in the process of domestication.
What are the tulip, apple, and potato?
300
Alternate theories for why childhood obesity is increasing.
What is sedentary behavior (video games & time online!) little exercise, poor supervision and eating habits?
300
Current percentage of the average household budget spent on food.
What is ten percent?
300
British journalist for who is a food critic with regular appearance on many television food shows like "Eating with the Enemy" and "Master Chef".
Who is Jay Rayner?
400
The primary concern of the food industry. (Hint: It is NOT quality and health!)
What is volume and price?
400
Sweetener made from corn that is found in many, many food products, including drinks.
What is high fructose corn syrup?
400
Three television networks heavily targeting children.
What are the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network?
400
Frequent complaint of those critical of industrial farm techniques that warehouse many animals in small, controlled spaces.
What is "It isn't natural"?
400
Novelist, poet, environmentalist, and Kentucky farmer.
Who is Wendell Berry?
500
Suggestions made by Berry about actions individuals can take.
What is (1) Grow your own food; (2) Prepare your own food; (3) Deal directly with food producers; (4) LEARN about food, farming, and agricultural business. (Order not important)
500
Fossil fuels used to produce nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides.
What are natural gas and oil?
500
Cartoon character with his own product lines of macaroni & cheese, popsicles, kleenex, skateboards, fruit snacks, and more.
What is SpongeBob SquarePants?
500
Problem for the future of agriculture in industrialized nations.
What is farmers children not wanting to go into the business of agriculture?
500
Book written by Michael Pollen.
What is THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA; FOOD RULES; IN DEFENSE OF FOOD; THE BOTANY OF DESIRE; A PLACE OF MY OWN; or SECOND NATURE?