Unhealthy foods are the cheapest because they use cheap unhealthy ingredients to make them.
What kinds of foods are the cheapest and why?
100
Because it was exposed to the open air
Why was Joel's organic farm considered unsanitary?
100
These companies do not explain that the food is very unhealthy for you.
how is the cheap cost of processed food misleading?
200
Cargill, Swift, National Beef,Tyson
What 4 companies control the beef supply?
200
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
What is a C.A.F.O.
200
It showed you could feed an entire family for 11-14 dollars
Why is buying off the dollar menu important? What did it show?
200
32,000
How many hogs are slaughtered per day at the Smithfield processing plant
300
They make it look like its a sunny picture perfect scene.
How are the brands and labels that are placed on meat products in the supermarket misleading?
300
Because it makes them overweight and more unhealthy
Why is it bad for cows to eat corn and not grass?
300
When you don't have a lot of money, you cannot afford to buy a lot of healthy food.
How is obesity and poverty linked together?
300
They are typically illegal immigrants from other countries.
Where do the large meat packing plants get most of their workers from?
300
To Break the Fast Breakfast
What is the proper meaning of the word breakfast?
400
If we see the terrible conditions inside people wouldn't buy their products
Why wasn't the film crew given permission by Tyson to view the inside of the chicken house?
400
Ammonia
What additive was used to clean the meat fillers to prevent ecoli?
400
1 in 3 and 1 in 2
What is the rate of diabetes in people born after 2000? What is that same rate in minorities?
400
They do this so because they feel since they are illegal they have no rights they can treat them poorly and pay them very small amounts of money for long days of work.
Why do the large meat packing plants hire illegal immigrants to work for them?
400
The food system would be different because people would truly know where their food comes from and how its made. Also, they wouldn't like it or want to buy it anymore
If we put glass walls on all the mega processing facilities, why would we have a different food system in this country?
500
The are overweight and muscles and bones cannot keep up with the growth. Also they are much bigger in a faster time and have more meat on their bones.
What are some of the health issues chickens face as a result of the accelerated growth? Also, how are the chickens physically different now than in the 1950s?
500
tainted meat/ and Kevin's Law
When the boy Kevin passed away what caused his death? Also what was the name of the law that was put in place to help regulate the food industry?
500
the health issues faced were high blood pressure diabetes cholesterol, it was for the family because they could not afford both and had to choose one or the other.
What where the health issues the father in the film was facing? Why was it difficult for the family to buy healthy food and his pills?
500
Ethylene gas, it was used to ripened the foods.
In the very beginning of the movie what was the name of the gas they said was used on the fruits and vegetables? What was this gas used for?