Industrial Farming
Health/Nutrition
Advertising
Food Insecurity
Random Food Facts
100
This term means that an animal is allowed to graze freely and acquire their food by foraging for grass and bugs.
What is free range?
100
More money is spent on this yearly than on books, magazines, newspapers and recorded music combined.
What is fast food
100
Advertisers often use this type of person to sell their products.
What is celebrity?
100
This term means having access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members
What is food security
100
This term means that all individuals, families and communities have access to healthy, high quality, affordable, culturally-relevant food that was grown and produced with minimal harm to earth, people and animals. It also means that food workers, such as farm laborers, restaurant employees, and food packagers, should receive fair wages and work in safe conditions.
What is food justice?
200
If cornfields used to feed THIS ANIMAL became well-managed grass fields, 14 billion lbs. of carbon would be removed from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of taking 14 million cars off the road.
What is cattle?
200
The typical American drinks 54 gallons of this kind of drink each year; a study in Massachusetts found that 9th and 10th grade girls who drank this were far more likely to suffer broken bones than girls who didn’t drink any.
What is soda
200
One fast food logo is more widely recognized than the religious symbol of the Christian Cross. It's been a part of American food culture for years...
What are McDonald's arches
200
These urban neighborhoods, where mostly low-income and people of color live, are called ______ because people have little or no access to fresh, whole food; rather they are surrounded only by corner stores that sell "junk" and processed food and sometimes fast food restaurants.
What are food deserts?
200
This substance found in foods can act like a drug, causing addiction and disrupting our mood and ability to concentrate.
What is sugar?
300
When cows do this they produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global climate change.
What is fart?
300
Corn is subsidized by the government, making it extremely cheap. The abundance of this corn product has contributed to the rise of obesity and Type II Diabetes. 530 million bushels of corn are made into 17.5 billion pounds of this corn product.
What is high fructose corn syrup
300
People will eat more of a product if has more than one___
What is color?
300
This NYC borough has the highest rate of diabetes
What is the Bronx
300
Most food travels an average of 2,000 miles from farm to table, making a huge carbon footprint that contributes to climate change; If we all lived by this slogan from the food justice movement, we could reduce our food-related carbon footprint.
What is "Buy Local?"
400
In this job, mostly immigrant workers run a high risk of amputated fingers and arms, ammonia burns and occasionally death by flying blades or by being crushed. Of 455 workers interviewed, 64% reported being injured in the previous year...
What is meatpacking?
400
Malt, Fructose, Sucrose, Maltose, Dextrose, Glucose, and Malodextrin are all _____
What is "sugars"
400
Very few Americans eat whole foods in their original state. Americans spend over 1 trillion dollars each year on food. This percentage of money is spent on processed foods such as packaged food, “junk food”, fast food, and unhealthy “food”.
What is 90%
400
About 1.9 million New Yorkers utilize food stamps, also known as
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
400
In the conventional food system, this fruit travels 1,555 miles on average before being eaten
What is an apple?
500
Cows' stomachs are built to eat grass, but in industrial farming they are fed this grain, which makes them bloated and sick.
What is corn?
500
The size of soda portions rising over the years, has cause a much higher risk to kids who consume soda. Kids having type 2 diabetes lose between 17 and 26 years of their life expectancy. In the 1950's, the most soda you could get in a fast food restaurant was an 8 ounce size. Now, the largest soda you can get in a fast food restaurant, which has 310 calories and almost 30 teaspoons of sugar, is ...
What is a 32 oz soda?
500
The "partnership" between which film company and many fast food companies has resulted in toys, product placement in movies, and tv shows that promote the buying of fast food.
What is Walt Disney?
500
Some solutions to food insecurity
What is community gardening, higher wages, improved education, more grocery stores with healthy options...
500
Small potato farms went out of business in the 1970's because they were taken over by industrial potato farms. Frozen french fries are held at 46 degrees farenheit in storage containers the size of 2 football fields for up to a year before they are shipped to restaurants and grocery stores. They are sprayed with this chemical used in Windex which freezes them and preserves them for up to a year.
What is ammonia?
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