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In Food Inc. we learn that after the decline of tobacco, farmers switch to
What is chicken farming?
Farmers rotate crops with legumes to allow _______ to be replaced in soil
What is nitrogen?
Since 1980s, virtually all soda is sweetened with:
What is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)?
The question of how a culture that consumes so much cheese, wine and croissants can possibly be healthier than Americans are is known as:
What is the French Paradox?
The three different modern food chains.
What are industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer?
Designing products to be discarded because they are no longer perceived to be useful or desirable
What is perceived obsolescence?
By instigating a reaction much quicker and more efficient than what could be done by the sun (i.e., he "fixed" nitrogen," German chemist Fritz Haber opened the door for
What are synthetic fertilizers?
After water, ________ is the most common element in our bodies
What is carbon?
When it comes to food, Pollan suggests that Americans have lost their connection to:
What is culture?
Any food whose provenance is so complex or obscure that it requires expert help to ascertain
What is industrial food?
According to "The Story of Stuff," the amount of garbage each person in the US makes each day
What is 4.5 pounds
Fixing nitrogen uses _______ as a catalyst.
What are fossil fuels?
The more carbon 13 you’ve got in your body, the more ______ there’s been in your diet or in the diet of animals that you ate
What is corn?
Pollan suggests much of food industry’s muddying of the food chain is deliberate – if we understood where and how much of our food is produced, we wouldn’t want to:
What is "eat it"?
Whereas nature prioritizes qualities like diversity, symbiosis and equilibrium, the industrial food chain prioritizes:
What is abundance?
According to "The Story of Stuff," the percentage of products that flow through the materials economy system still in use six months after their date of sale
What is 1%
The idea that the farm no longer needs to maintain diversity to conserve its own fertility (A movement from the logic of biology to the logic of industry)
What is monoculture?
Corn kernels can be dried, easily transported, and sold making it...
What is the perfect commodity?
The number of products the American supermarket sells
What is 47,000
A liquid sweetener made from cornstarch
What is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)?
The story we tell ourselves where meat and animal products come from
What is The Meatrix?
Farms in the 1920s were based on ______-based systems
What is sun (versus fossil fuel/synthetic nitrogen-based systems)
Corn requires human intervention for successful:
What is propagation?
Tattoos, balloons, charcoal, beach balls, airbags, yarn, and cardboard all contain:
Corn
The stomach compartment in the digestive systems of cows responsible for fermentation is the
What is the rumen?