Ch. #10
What year did the idea of organic food catch on?
What is 1969 (p. 131)
Why did Pollan visit Polyface farm?
What is to find out if it was possible for a non-industrial food chain to survive in the 21st century (p. 167)
What was one emotion he expected to feel but did not feel immediately?
What is sorrow or remorse (p.279)
How did farmers like George Naylor's grandfather get their seed?
What is Farmers grew their own seeds
What are the 4 Food Chains?
What is Industrial, Industrial Organic, Local Sustainable, Hunter-Gatherer
What does it mean when food is grown organically?
What is grown without the help of fossil fuels, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. (p.131)
What is the foundation of the farm's success?
What is grass (p. 168)
Why did Pollan tell Angelo he wanted to take a picture?
What is he began to feel sick and needed "a breathe of fresh air" (p.279)
What reasons does Pollan give for his claim that corn "succeeded so well"?
What is corn made a lot of money, farmers were using hybrid seeds
What is the difference between equity and equality?
What is..
Equity means giving everyone what they need to be successful.
Equality means to promote fairness.
What is a monoculture farm?
What is a farm that only grows 1 crop (p.133)
What does Polyface farm raise?
What is chicken,beef,turkeys,eggs,rabbits, pigs,tomatoes,sweet corn, grapes and berries (p.168)
Why did he find seeing the inside of the pig more disturbing than the chickens guts on Joel's farm?
What is because the pigs internal organs looked exactly like human organs (p.281)
How is genetically modified corn seed created? Why is it better than the hybrid seeds?
What is in company laboratories and give corn the traits you want
Which food chain does the following meal belong to? Why?:
1 Big Mac, small fries, large soda
What is Industrial because food is processed and not organic
What were organic food co-ops?
What is neighbors would get together once a week and order organic vegetables from farmers (p.132)
What did Salatin mean when he said "Because that's how it works in nature"?
What is "Birds follow and clean up after herbivore's" (p.170)
Why was he so disgusted? How does he explain his disgust?
What is because it reminds us of our own death (p.282)
Why do farmers like George Naylor refuse to grow GMO crops?
What is "reckless experiment that messes with natural order of things"
What is in most of our food? Why?
What is "There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn" (p.20)
What is one right agribusiness corporations wanted?
What is the right to call genetically modified food (GMO) organic (p.138)
How do the animals and crops at Polyface move in circles?
What is the pastures are the stage and the main action of the dance is to rotate the animals through the pastures (p.170)
What does he say hunters ought to be aware of?
What is "the seriousness of what they are doing and never treat it lightly" (p.284)
What do you think "GMO'S are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things" means?
What is there could be harming effects from the GMOs corn/seeds
What type of farms are George Naylor's or Earthbound? Why?
What is Industrial farms because they run like factories (p.169)