Sustainable vs. Industrial
Heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers to grow crops.
What is industrial agriculture?
If 8 out of 10 people who eat contaminated food get sick, THIS is the attack rate of the illness.
What is 80%?
True or false: Food transportation is the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions in the food system.
What is FALSE?
The process of keeping food cold in order to preserve its freshness and limit the growth of pathogens.
What is refrigeration or freezing?
Modeling farming practices after natural ecosystems.
What is sustainable agriculture?
Germs and chemicals in food can both make people sick. Of the two, THESE are more likely to cause cancer many years after initial exposure.
What are chemical contaminants?
The environmental consequence of burning fossil fuels to excess.
What is climate change/global warming?
The effect that cold temperatures have on the movement of molecules.
What is slowing them down?
Industrial agriculture relies heavily on this process, the growing of large numbers of only one crop.
What is a monoculture?
The term for a disease-causing bacteria or virus.
What is a pathogen?
The intervention that would more effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions: All people buying 100% local food, or all people giving up animal products one day per week.
What is giving up animal products?
True or false: Food processing always results in making food less nutritious and less tasty.
What is FALSE?
The use of nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich fertilizers can contribute to the excess growth of THIS in affected waterways.
What is algae?
Cows fed this type of food, rather than grass, may carry a higher load of bacteria in their guts, resulting in higher rates of illness in humans.
What are grains?
The two states that provide most of the United States' fruit.
What are Florida and California?
One advantage of packaging food (e.g. in plastic or foil).
What is preserving freshness and preventing contamination?
Overcrowding in farm animals often results in the overuse of antibiotics. THESE kinds of bacterial infections are becoming more common as a result, and threatening human health.
What are antibiotic resistant infections?
The amount of time it takes for a person to get sick after exposure to a pathogen.
What is the incubation period?
The average distance meals are shipped in the U.S., farm to plate.
What is 1500 miles?
An essential nutrient commonly added to salt in the United States.
What is iodine?