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100
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?
100
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?
100
Q: 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%
100
More money is spent on this yearly than on books, magazines, newspapers and recoded music combined.
What is fast food?
100
This book by Peter Singer is a powerful work that attacks eating meat on the grounds that the difference between a mentally-impaired child (who we cuddle) and a pig (who we kill and eat) is negligible. It systematically refutes the justifications of eating meat, and after reading it, many readers chose to become vegetarians...
What is Animal Liberation?
200
This type of farming, it's own controlled ecosystem, is based on coordinating a variety of animals such as pigs, chickens, cows, turkeys and rabbits, by taking advantage of their biological and instinctive behaviors. The chickens clean up after the cows by eating the fly larvae out of their manure, and they spread around the manure which fertilizes the soil. The advantages of this type of farming are more productivity with no negative impact of the environment...
what is "management intensive farming"?
200
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?
200
James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A & M University, says that kids use 7 different manipulative tactics to persuade their parents to buy them fast food and junk food. Kids repeat please, please, please over and over, have tantrums in public, and make parents feel guilty that their friends will not like them if they don't have a product. Kids are "brainwashed" because they watch this number of fast and junk food commercials per year.
What is 20,000?
200
Q: There is almost no difference between natural and artificial flavors. A lot of our artificial and natural flavors come from chemicals created and combined in factories that make fragrances from perfumes and lotions as well as food flavors. Flavor additives are in all processed foods. Rather than making a strawberry milkshake from strawberries, milk, cream sugar and ice, fast and processed “strawberry milkshakes” contain this number of artificial flavors?
A: What is 53?
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?
300
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 are cows?
300
Among African American and Latino children in the United States, approximately one out of two will develop Type 2 Diabetes because of their unhealthy diet. Shortening their life span by approximately this many years.
What is 21?
300
In the 1920’s, the US government passed anti-monopoly laws to protect small businesses from unfair business tactics such as overpricing. IN the 1970’s fast food companies gave their business to only a few meat suppliers and the government stopped protecting small family businesses. NOw, there are only 4 main meatpackers. Tyson ,Swift and Co, Excel, and National Beef control this percentage of the beef market...
What is 84%?
300
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 ounce soda?
300
Q: 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 a chemical used in Windex which freezes them and preserves them for up to a year.
What is ammonia?
400
The chemical, monitor, a pesticide used on one of the most widely used foods in the USA, is so toxic to the nervous system, that no one is allowed in this vegetable field for five days after it is sprayed...
What are potatoes?
400
Slaughterhouse workers, mostly Latino immigrants, make a knife cut every how many seconds, adding up to 10,000 cuts in an 8 hour shift.
What is 2-3 seconds?
400
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 the Mcdonald's arches?
400
A generation ago, oil companies were the most likely targets for angry overseas protests against US wealth and power. A crowd of 400 Danish protesters looted and burned these places. Bombs have been placed in these places. Some people in Indonesia and Afghanistan have even been killed because of this. and Today, what symbol of American power has become the most likely target?
What are McDonald's, KFC's, and Burger King restaurants?
400
Q: This type of meat (and dairy) contains CLA, an enzyme that reduces weight and prevents cancer. It also contains Omega 3 which plays a direct role in proper brain development.
What is grass fed beef?
500
In 1920, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for inventing a cheap and efficient way to turn petroleum by-products into nitrogen based fertilizers. This sparked the rise of industrial farming, making it possible to grow corn and other mono-crops repeatedly without using cover crops to restore nitrogen to the ground...
Who is Fritz Haber?
500
Until recently, Native Alaskans had eaten local healthy foods that they caught, hunted, gathered or grew. Since the 1990’s, fast food, packaged food, and soda companies starting shipping and selling to stores in rural Alaska, resulting in a change of diet. Now most people drink 6 -7 cans of soda a day. When Native Alaskan mothers put soda and other sugary drinks in baby bottles, babies get tooth decay and it kills the roots of their newly developing adult teeth in this syndrome...
What is Baby Bottle Syndrome?
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
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%?
500
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 would virtually eliminate any food-related carbon footprint.
What is "Buy Local"?