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A ___ is more like a factory now with our food coming from enormous assembly lines owned by multi-national corporations.
What is farm?
This is how corporations keep farmers in check
What is debt, threats?
Humans have changed the way they in in this many years than in the past 10 000 years
What is 50 years?
Name 3 ingredients that McDonald’s is the largest purchaser for
What are beef, potatoes, pork, chicken, tomato, lettuce, apples?
These corporations refused to take part in this documentary when asked for a statement on their industrial chicken houses.
Who are Tyson and Perdue?
___ is the main ingredient in animal feed
What is Corn?
The annual salary of a typical grower with two chicken houses has borrowed over $500 000
What is $18 000?
The first fast food restaurant to integrate the factory system to the back of a restaurant kitchen
What is McDonald's?
Name one effect of the shortened growing period of chickens
What is breasts are bigger, chickens are not able to stand for long periods of time, most chickens are immune to antibiotics
This author and investigative journalist opened up the documentary at a diner eating a hamburger speaking on the secret changes the industrial food industry had made to our food.
Who is Eric Schlosser?
The average American eats ___ lbs of meat per person per year
What is 200?
After the decline of Tobacco, many Southern farmers turned to this type of farming
What is Chicken?
Over the past decades, cow slaughterhouses have gone from thousands to only this many
What is 13?
Name 5 products listed in the documentary that include corn
What are ketchup, cheese, twinkies, batteries, peanut butter, cheez-its, salad dressing, coke. Jelly, syrup, juice, kool-aid, charcoal motrin, diapers fast food?
This mother lost her child 6 years ago from E.coli found in hamburger meat. Since then she has been working with politicians to pass Kevin’s Law, a law that allows the USDA to shut down plants that repeatedly failed microbial testing.
Who is Barbara Kowalcyk?
In the USA, ___% of land is used to plant corn
What is 30?
Due to constant exposure, some farmers are now immune to this common prescribed drug
What are antibiotics?
This viral outbreak is more common than ever, affecting all age groups
What is E. coli?
Name 2 food products that people have found E. coli in
What are apple juice, spinach, any meat?
This farmer had her farming contract terminated with Perdue after refusing to upgrade her chicken house to the dark, tunnel-ventalited house. She then exposed what goes on in a Perdue chicken plant.
Who is Carole Morison?
____ is the chemical used to artificially ripen fruit and vegetables
What is ethylene gas?
Chicken catchers are individuals that catch chickens at night to be sent to the processing plant. Following African Americans, Big corporations now encourage this type of individual to be hired as a chicken catcher due to the lack of workers’ rights.
Who are undocumented citizens?
Historically, it took a chicken around 78 days to fully develop, however, due to the industrial food system it now takes this many.
What is 49 days?
Name 4 food products / vegetables shown in the opening scene
What are lasagna, tomato, lime. lemon, eggplant, frozen dinners, soda, chips, crackers, popcorn, cereal, cucumber, peppers, zucchini, raw chicken, beef?
This author wrote a book about where our food comes from speaking on the importance of corn in the industrial food industry.
Who is Michael Pollan?