In 2011 the USDA replaced the Food Guide Pyramid first published in 1992 with MyPlate. This food group makes up the biggest proportion of MyPlate.
What are vegetables?
100
The decline in the population of this insect has adversely affected crop production.
What are honey bees?
100
Cows' stomachs are not designed to digest grains, such as corn, but are designed to digest this.
What is grass?
100
Americans spend 6.7% of their income on this, whereas people in poor countries spend 70%.
What is food?
100
This state grows the most diverse food crops after California.
What is Michigan?
200
A diet that doesn't contain any animal products.
What is vegan?
200
One-third or our greenhouse gas emissions come from this practice.
What is agriculture?
200
The only state to ban use of gestation crates for pigs, veal crates, and battery cages for chickens?
What is Michigan?
200
$2.13 per hour.
What is the federal minimum wage for food workers that receive tips?
200
According to the USDA, in 1994 there were 1,755 of these places to buy fresh local foods. In 2014, that number had increased to 8,268.
What are farmers markets?
300
The first food pyramid recommended an increase in this to >40% of the total daily calories which has contributed to the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics.
What are carbohydrates?
300
The single most powerful thing you can do to reduce the environmental impact of your diet.
What is eating less beef?
300
This type of egg has less cholesterol, less saturated fat, more vitamin A, more vitamin E, more beta carotene, and more omega-3 fatty acid than conventionally-raised eggs.
What are eggs from free-range chickens?
300
Products that bear this logo come from farmers and workers who are justly compensated.
What is Fair Trade?
300
The science of altering and cloning genes to produce a new trait in plant or animal.
What is genetic engineering?
400
The "good" fat, found in certain fish, nuts and seeds, can lower elevated triglyceride levels.
What is Omega 3?
400
According to the EPA, in 2010 this was the single largest component of municipal solid waste in landfills and incinerators.
What is discarded food?
400
Huge lots where animals are raised in confined spaces.
What is a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO)?
400
A labor union for farmworkers in the U. S.
What is the United Farm Workers of America?
400
Abbreviated as CSA, members pay the farmer an annual fee to cover the production costs of the farm and receive a weekly share of the harvest during the local growing season.
What is Community Supported Agriculture?
500
Part of the body's immune response, thought to play a role in obesity, heart disease and cancer. Foods high in sugar and saturated fats can trigger it.
What is inflammation?
500
This commonly used herbicide contains an active component that has recently been classified as a class 2A carcinogen.
What is Roundup (glyphosate)?
500
A food label used for meat and dairy products that come from farm animals raised to the highest animal welfare and environmental standards.
What is Animal Welfare Approved (AWA)?
500
A religious document issued in June 2015 that called on the people of the world to develop a common plan to save the planet from global climate change.
What is Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Environment?
500
A program that extends the money spent with SNAP Bridge Cards (aka Food Stamps) to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at famers’ markets and grocery stores.