Food System
Prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or groundwater which can affect crop and animal production leading to food shortages and high market prices.
What is a drought?
Communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate, and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, consumers, workers, and animals.
What is food justice?
A person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.
What is a farmer?
This historic farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland and is still a working farm today.
What is Queens County Farm?
Foods that can replace or mimic both texture and taste of animal meat and also reduce our carbon footprint.
What are meat alternatives?
A famous class-action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging racial discrimination against African-American farmers in its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1981 and 1996.
What is Pigford vs. Glickman?
An expert in the use of food and nutrition to promote health and manage diseases. They often work in hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, or medical offices.
Female honeybees will fight it out to take the position of this leader when they are about to die.
What is Queen Bee?
Industrialized farming and excessive meat consumption can be linked to high emissions of this pollutant which contributes to climate change.
What is greenhouse gases?
The unethical practice that puts services (financial and otherwise) out of reach for residents of certain areas based on race or ethnicity. Lenders map out the neighborhoods they would not invest in based on demographics alone.
What is redlining?
A multidisciplinary field which combines microbiology, applied physical sciences, chemistry and engineering for food and related industries.
What is food engineering?
A collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
What is herbarium specimens?
Two damaging methods of wild fishing, one which involves dragging a net across the seafloor and the other which uses a large metal basket to scoop up shellfish like scallops, clams, and oysters. Both can contribute to the destruction of fragile sea sponges, corals, and other critical members of ocean ecosystems.
Trawling and dredging.
An African American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, he developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The discipline that studies agricultural production and processing and combines the disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical and chemical engineering principles with a knowledge of agricultural principles according to technological principles.
What is agricultural engineering?
The number of Chinese restaurants that exist in the United States. This total is more than all the McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Wendy's combined.
What is 45,000?
The practice of raising sea life in ponds, filtered tanks, fenced areas of bodies of water, or other artificial environments for the purpose of harvesting fish for food consumption.
What is aquaculture?
The practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas.
What is Urban Agriculture?
These individuals use their training in food science and culinary arts to contribute to research and development. They apply their knowledge of chemistry, engineering, and sensory evaluation to create recipes and products that appeal to consumers.
What is a research chef?
This feature allows goats to have an extensive peripheral vision which lets them watch out for predators, and helps them see the entire terrain around them when they must plot an escape.
What is rectangular pupils/eyes?