3/17/15

Tonight's homework is to work on Assignment 40, which you will continue and complete in class tomorrow.

Assignment 40 – Evaluating Local/Organic Foods in Our Food Supply

Your college/university announces a proposal to incorporate more local and organic foods in the dining halls and other on-campus meal options. Students will get to vote on this initiative since it would impact (and likely raise) the prices of their meal plan options.

How would you vote? Support your position.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Claim	States clear, well-reasoned, and nuanced claim	States clear, well-reasoned claim	States a logical, but vague claim	States an illogical or indefensible position
Support of claim	Thoroughly supports claims with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence and offers strong rebuttals to opposing arguments	Thoroughly supports claims with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence and offers rebuttals to opposing arguments	Supports claims with multiple detailed, convincing specific reason/piece of evidence	Supports claims with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim

Resources

What are the environmental benefits of organic agriculture? - fao.org

Why is organic food more expensive than conventional food? - fao.org

Nutritional Quality of Organic Foods: shades of grey or shades of green? - Williams (2002), PNS 

Organic Foods - Winter and Davis (2006), Journal of Food Science