Joel Salatin's Farm
What is Polyface
Name of Pollan's favorite grocery store:
What is a subsidy?
Is the extra cost of organic food worth it?
Yes, because three are lower levels of pesticides and the animals are fed more natural feeds, versus just corn, which makes them tastier!
Where is the best place in the grocery store to shop for the most natural foods?
The perimeter of the store.
The moveable shademobile Joel Salatin uses to move his turkeys is:
What is a Gobbledy-Go!
Why does Joel Salatin call himself a grass grower, ultimately?
Because everything he grows has a food chain to grass.
The industry or business dealing with products and services required in farming is:
What is agribusiness!
Toward the book's end, what did Angelo and the author hunt for in the forest, some of which are poisonous?
Funghi! (or chanterelles, mushrooms, etc.)
Name of the silos that farmers like George Naylor use to store their corn harvest each year.
What is a grain elevator?
One of Joel's proudest innovations is called_______ .
What is the egg-mobile!
The animal that the author shot and killed in the forest was:
What is a pig!
Define GMO
What is Genetically Modified Organism
What is the main food cows are supposed to eat?
What is grass!
Number 534 is:
What is the name of the steer that our author was following through the food chain...
Name 4 things Joel grows on Polyface Farm:
True or False: Joel Salatin sends cows and pigs away to be processed, per government regulations.
TRUE
Being able to conserve an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources is______________.
What is sustainable.
What was the one item that had to be purchased to make the organic meal at Joel Salatin's home?
What is a can of cream of mushroom soup!
The expression "cattle eating cattle" means:
In feedlots, cows essentially end up eating other cattle since they are sometimes fed parts of other cattle!Also, if they eat corn, and then create manure, and the cow eats the grass that was fed by manure, well, they are eating cattle!
To a cow, a pasture is like a _________________ with lots of different things to eat.
What is a salad bar!
What IS the Omnivore's dilemma?
Name the item made from corn that is in almost EVERYTHING you eat. Hint: Pepsi, Tacky's, Jolly Ranchers,McDonald's burgers...
What is High Fructose Corn Syrup!
Why did the chickens "cross the pasture" at Joel Salatin's farm?
To fertilize the grass (Joel moves the chickens every night!)
How many teaspoons of sugar make up a can of Pepsi?
10 teaspoons!