Category 1
What does the acronym CAFOs stand for?
confined animal feedlot operations
What percent of food is wasted globally, according to the article?
40%
How many times more food have we been producing compared to what’s needed to feed everyone?
about 1.5x more food
What principle does the author suggest to financially hold corporations accountable in the food system?
According to the author, corporations perpetuate the myth of scarcity to obscure the difference between a need and a _____.
Demand
What is the term for the following fallacy: the idea that there is "not enough" food, which leads to more food production, when in reality, there is unequal food distribution
the scarcity myth
What is the term for a shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative/resilient/equitable one?
a "just transition"
The waste of 40 percent of food leads to the production of a lot of unnecessary quantities of this greenhouse gas.
Methane
Name one environmental impact of overproducing food.
Examples: degraded soils & aquifers, huge dead zones in lakes/oceans, methane from wasted food
______ solutions (apps, big data) often fail to challenge the industrial food system because they reinforce monopoly power rather than transform it
technical
“____” is what people require for nutrition; “____” is what they can afford or what markets pay for.
Need; Demand
Capitalist overproduction
Name one alternative food system approach that the author endorses.
examples: agroecology, localization, food sovereignty, cooperative banks, school gardens
The real market demand for food is primarily for this one thing, which fuels investment in growing feed for livestock
cheap meat
What term describes the following?: "Giant soy, maize, and wheat plantations in the U.S. and Latin America are celebrated for using “precision agriculture” and “big data” to make efficient use of fertilizers and pesticides. But these plantations are displacing diversified small farms, grasslands, and forests at an astonishing rate"
"climate-smart" agriculture