Assignment #29 - All Your Food Are Belongs To Corn (and Soybeans)
Based on the video clip from “Food, Inc.” and the reading
from Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, answer the following
questions to the best of your ability in complete sentences.
Comprehension Questions
1. Why do we grow so much dang corn in the United States?
2. Why are corn and soybeans found in all my gosh darn
food?
3. Identify and describe health issues associated with
consumption of corn-sweetened, processed foods.
Thinking/Reflection Questions
4a. Look at the foods in your home and complete the table
on the back by identifying which of the
foods/products in your home contain which corn-based ingredients.
4b. What is your reaction to your findings?
5. Who is to blame/thank for creating and perpetuating
such an oversupply of cheap, processed foods?
6. Pollan claims that if we continue our current
agricultural policies, “the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue
to be the unhealthiest.” How could this be changed? If you had to create a farm
bill (legislation that controls agriculture/food policy), how would you
encourage farmers to change what they grow?
7. In economics, externalities are costs (or benefits)
associated with a product/transaction that the consumer does not know about or
does not choose to incur. In other words, externalities
are hidden costs. Based on what you have viewed and/or read about this week,
write at least a paragraph answering the following: What is the true cost of our food? Are there externalities associated
with American food supply?
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