<p>Food, Inc. Name: ______Introduction 1. What is the role of government in society?</p><p>2. How much influence should the government have over business? Why?</p><p>3. How much influence should business have over government?</p><p>4. What type of images are used to sell food?</p><p>5. How many products does the average modern American supermarket sell?</p><p>Fast Food 6. Are here any rights that all animals should have? Explain.</p><p>7. How do you think farm animals should be treated? Why?</p><p>8. When did the Fast Food industry get its start?</p><p>9. What type of system was applied by the McDonalds brothers their restaurant in order to keep prices low and speed up service?</p><p>10. Who is the largest purchaser of ground beef in the United States?</p><p>11. In the 1970’s, how much of the beef packing industry was controlled by the top 5 companies?</p><p>12. Today, the top 4 control how much of the market? </p><p>13. Describe chicken growth in the 1950 vs. 2008.</p><p>14. Who told Vince that he couldn’t show the inside of his chicken houses?</p><p>15. Describe the conditions in Carole Morison’s chicken houses.</p><p>16. How much does one chicken house cost?</p><p>17. How much does a typical two-chicken house grower earn in a year?</p><p>18. As consumers do we have the right to know how the chickens we eat are being raised? Do we want to know?</p><p>Cornucopia 19. Whose responsibility do you think it is to inform us about what is in our food?</p><p>20. Where does the industrial food system keep leading the author Michael Pollan in his search to discover the source of our food?</p><p>21. Why is corn produced bellow the cost of production?</p><p>22. List 5 things that contain corn?</p><p>23. How much meat does an average American eat per year? How is that possible? </p><p>24. How might manure find its way into our ground beef?</p><p>25. How many inspections did the FDA conduct in 1972 versus 2006? </p><p>26. How many slaughterhouses are there today (2006)? 27. What killed Kevin? </p><p>28. Who said that the USDA could not shut down a plant that continuously fails inspection?</p><p>29. What law is being proposed to give power to the USDA?</p><p>30. You are the meat distributor who sold the meat to the restaurant. You weren’t aware that the meat was contaminated. Are you responsible?</p><p>The Dollar Menu 31. How does the cheap price of processed food affect low-income families? Is it fair?</p><p>32. Why are snack food calories cheaper than fresh produce?</p><p>33. What does the food industry say causes obesity?</p><p>34. What three tastes are we hardwired to seek out?</p><p>In the Grass 35. When deciding what to eat how much should we consider the workers who pick, process, and transport it?</p><p>36. Describe the system of grass-fed cattle.</p><p>37. Describe how chickens are slaughtered and processed on Polyface Farms.</p><p>38. How far away do workers have to travel to work in Smithfield’s slaughterhouse?</p><p>39. What put Mexican corn famers out business?</p><p>Hidden Costs 40. What makes the industrial food system dishonest?</p><p>41. Who has been buying organic food companies?</p><p>42. Why is Wal-Mart getting into organics?</p><p>From Seed to Supermarket 43. Name three products that Monsanto makes.</p><p>44. What happens if a farmer saves their seeds?</p><p>45. How many investigators does Monsanto have?</p><p>46. What does Moe Parr do for farmers?</p><p>The Veil 47. Should a company have the power to decide what information to give consumers about the food it produces?</p><p>48. How did Monsanto gain so much control?</p><p>49. Why is such controversy for labeling food?</p><p>50. Why happened to Oprah when she talked about not eating burgers on her show?</p><p>Shocks to the System 51. How did the price of oil affect the price of food?</p><p>52. How can we vote for a better food system?</p>