Industrial, Industrial-Organic, Local-Sustainable and Hunter-Gatherer
What are the four food chains Pollan addresses?
100
The definition of the word yield
What is to produce, harvest of output?
100
How Americans and Mexicans view corn differently
What is as a commodity versus a source of life?
100
How much of every dollar goes to a small corn farmer?
What is 20 cents?
100
How humans differ from koalas and monarchs.
What is humans are omnivores, so they don't get their nutrients from only one source. We need big brains in order to think about and decide what to eat?
200
"When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you SHOULD eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the potential foods on offer are liable to sicken or kill you."
What is the omnivore's dilemma?
200
These help keep the price of growing corn down, which in turn helps keep corn prices down, which hurts small farmers, but which helps big companies like Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Coca-Cola and McDonalds get rich!
What are government subsidies?
200
How do cows and grass have a natural partnership?
What is cows eat grass, but they also help grass grown by spreading the seeds with their hooves and fertilizing the seeds with their manure?
200
David Wallerstein's discovery
What is that Americans will buy and eat big portions, but they won't go back for seconds (it makes them feel piggish)?
200
The reason humans are born with a sweet tooth
What is when we were hunters and gatherers, our bodies told us to like and eat sugary foods, because they are a source of energy. Hunter-gatherers had to go for long periods of time without food, unlike us. Now, our built-in sweet teeth are still around, but everything now has sugar in it, so we are gaining lots of weight?
300
Products/ingredients made from corn
What are modified starch, unmodified starch, glucose syrup, maltodextrin, ascorbic acid, crystalline fructose, lactic acid, MSG, caramel color and xanthan gum?
300
The difference between hybrid and GMO seeds
What is hybrid seeds come from two plants with different traits that are cross pollenated, whereas GMO seeds are genetically altered in a lab?
300
Two drawbacks and one benefit of CAFOs.
What are toxic pollution, bacteria-infected cows, and meat can be grown quickly for cheap?
300
The number of junk food calories you can buy with $1 versus the amount of healthy calories you can buy with $1.
What is 1,200 vs. 250?
300
How cooking was a turning point in human evolution
What is it increased the amount of food humans could eat, because cooking food kills toxins and bacteria that we otherwise could not consume?
400
Five ways corn was helpful to Native Americans.
What are: husks could be woven into rugs and twine, leaves and stalks made feed for livestock, kernels could be dried and ground into flour, corn could be mashed and fermented into whiskey, and shelled cobs could be stored by the outhouse for toilet paper?
400
This is called supply and demand
What is the principal that states when there is a lot of a product on the market, sellers have to compete for customers, so prices go down; however, if there is a shortage of the same product on the market, people will pay more for it, so prices go up.
400
Five different ways Cargill and ADM control the corn industry.
What are they sell the pesticides and fertilizer to farmers; they operate most of America's grain elevators; they control the shipping and exporting of corn; they mill the corn into different parts for processed foods; and the feed the corn to animals, and then slaughter the animals for money?
400
The paradox of American food guidelines and food prices, both of which are influenced by the government.
What is the government established the food pyramid so that Americans would eat healthy food, but it also subsidizes corn, which makes a lot of unhealthy food. Thus, unhealthy foods are CHEAP and healthy foods are EXPENSIVE?
400
The difference -- in eating habits -- between America and other cultures
What is other cultures rely on tradition and ancestors to learn what they should eat; Americans don't have a food tradition or history, so we tend to eat more junk food. We also don't sit down and eat as a family very often. This also promotes poor eating habits.
500
25%
What is the percentage of items in the average American supermarket that are made from corn?
500
At least five uses for oil on the farm
What are natural gas in fertilizer and fossil fuels in pesticides; diesel used by tractors; fuel needed to harvest, dry and transport corn?
500
Some of these include liquefied fat, protein supplements, liquid vitamins, antibiotic drugs and corn.
What are some of the ingredients that go into cattle feed?
500
The amount of sugar (through HFCS and other sources like cane sugar) the averave American consumes per year.
What is 139 pounds?
500
The most expensive item the Pollan family purchased from McDonalds and that item's price.