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Diet and Health
Factory Farming
Where Food Comes From
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This disease, also called hypertension, is a leading cause of death among communities of color. It can be caused by eating foods high in fat and salt.
What is high-blood pressure?
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An intense method of animal meat production that packs thousands of animals into small spaces and overfeeds them in preparation for slaughter.
What is a factory farming, also called a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation)?
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These 3 staple crops are major ingredients in a vast majority of all processed food items on grocery store shelves.
What are corn, wheat, and soy?
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Food that has been altered from its natural state in some way, either for safety reasons or convenience, is commonly referred to as this.
What is processed food?
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This Louisiana city, known for it's levees, has the highest occurrence of food deserts, meaning residents must travel more than a MILE to a grocery store.
What is New Orleans, LA? In New Orleans, the average grocery store serves 16,000 people — twice the national average. With Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on some of New Orleans’ poorest communities, a lack of access to healthy foods has become even more of an issue for the city’s poorest residents. As of 2006, according to change.org, some 60 percent of New Orleans residents say they have to choose between a buying food and paying utility bills.
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This disease, which affects how one's body is able to process blood sugar, leads to too much sugar in the blood and urine, and is a common killer amongst communities of color.
What is diabetes?
200
This popular fast-food chain essentially revolutionized the farming industry by becoming one of the nation's largest purchaser of beef, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, and even apples, thereby demanding that farms change the way they grew food and livestock.
What is McDonald's?
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The median US income for 2015 was $55,775. The average farm worker earns this amount, annually.
What is $10,000 a year.
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GMO stands for this.
What is Genetically Modified Organism?
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As of 2015, there were this many grocery stores in New Orleans serving the 350,000 person population.
What is 30?
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This term refers to low-income communities where individuals must travel more than a mile to access fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthy foods.
What is food desert.
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The addition of this crop into the diet of factory farmed cows, is partially responsible for the increased presence of e-coli in consumer meat products.
What is corn? The addition of e.Coli in the cow's diet makes the meat "marbled" with fat, but it also produces e-coli bacteria in their gut. Farm operations have responded by dosing the cows with anti-biotics, regularly.
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This popular company, mostly known for it's brands of cereal, is actually the owner of several popular food brands such as Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, and Green Giant, and is one of the largest food production companies in the world.
What is General Mills?
300
This common fruit, which is often mistaken for a vegetable, is frequently picked prematurely, shipped around the world, and then artificially ripened using Ethylene Gas.
What is a tomato?
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In 2007, after Hurricane Katrina, the number of grocery stores in New Orleans dropped from 31 to this number.
What is 15 grocery stores?
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This is the hormone that your body produces to either convert glucose (sugar) into energy or or store it for later use.
What is insulin?
400
This international company, which specializes in genetically modified crops and producing pesticides, sues farmers who save their own corn, soy and wheat seeds.
What is Monsanto?
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In order to earn minimum wage, some farmworkers must pick this many tons of vegetables a day.
What is 2.5?
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A holistic, sustainable farming system that maximizes the diversity of plants and livestock without the use of pesticides, genetically modified organisms, or growth hormones is called this.
What is organic farming?
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This term describes a specific type of racism, in which low-income or communities of color are situated close to environmentally hazardous conditions, such a toxic waste, pollution, or food deserts.
What is environmental racism?
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These two bean shaped organs located on either side of the spine, are responsible for cleaning the blood, and can be damaged by a diet high in salt and sugar.
What are the kidneys?
500
This term describes the factory farming method of planting only one crop over a large portion of land, thereby stripping the soil of nutrients and degrading the land's resilience.
What is a monoculture?
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The average meal travels this many miles from farm to plate.
What is 1500?
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This common food additive which comes from corn, is often added to increase the sweetness of processed foods, and is linked to major health issues such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
What is high-fructose corn syrup?
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This website can help someone in New Orleans or New York locate an existing community food garden pLOT, start one of their own.
What is livinglots.org?