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47,000 |
How many products are found in the average U.S. supermarket? |
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ethylene gas (naturally produced from fruits and vegetables) |
What ripens conventional green tomatoes before you buy them? |
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factory system |
How did the McDonald’s brothers revolutionize the fast food industry? |
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4 |
How many companies control the majority of meat available for purchase? |
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chicken farming |
After the decline of tobacco what did farmers switch to? |
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3 months, 49 (growth hormones) |
How many days is it used to ‘grow’ a chicken? How many now? |
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because they have less resistance |
Why do you think they pick up chickens at night? |
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$18,000 |
How much does a typical chicken farmer with 2 $500,000 houses make a year? |
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corn |
What is the majority of food made from? |
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20 bushels, 200 bushels |
How much corn used to be harvest per acre? How much currently? |
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corn, soy beans |
90% of products contain either _____ or ______. |
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200 lbs. |
How much meat does the average person eat per year? |
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corn is cheap, and makes cows fat. |
Why are grass eating cows fed corn? |
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50,000; 9,164 |
How many FDA food safety inspections were conducted in 1972? 2006? |
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reduced funding of the FDA; and the state does more in-house inspections |
State two reasons they do less food safety inspections? |
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no because the court said the USDA does not have the authority to shut down a plant |
Can the USDA shut down a plant that has repeated E. coli and Salmonella positive tests? |
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5 |
How many days does it take giving a cow grass instead of corn for the cow to shed 80% of E. coli? |
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ammonia |
What cleanses most of the bacteria out of production line hamburger filler? |
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they are heavily subsidizing and cheaper to produce then sell |
Why are ‘bad’ (unhealthy) calories cheaper? |
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3 |
One in ___ Americans born after 2000 will have up to type 2 diabetes. |
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32,000 |
At Smithfield in Tarheel, NC, how many pigs are killed per day? |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
What president took on the beef trust? |
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meat packing |
What is one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S.? |
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meat packing companies |
What industry invites illegal Mexican immigrants to the U.S.? |
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they get arrested, put in jail, and deported |
What happens to these immigrants? |
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20% |
How much food is grown organically annually? |
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Stonyfield, organic |
What is the #3 yogurt brand in America? Why is this important? |
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over 90% |
How many soybeans grown in 2008 contained the roundup ready genes? |
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they will be investigated by Monsanto, and will get sued |
What happens to a farmer who tries to save his own seeds? |
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6 |
How many seed cleaners machines are left in the U.S.? |
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4-5 virtually known |
How many public seeds are still produced by universities/the government? |
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Clarence Thomas (present) |
What Supreme Court Justice was a former Monsanto employee that wrote the majority decision for seed patents? |
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cloned meat |
What kind of meat does not need to be labeled before being sold? |
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78% |
What percent of food in the supermarket is genetically modified? |
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Texas cattlemen, Oprah |
Who sued Oprah for saying she didn’t want to eat a burger? Who won? |
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40,000 |
How many gallons of diesel fuel are used by farmers annually? |
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75 gallons |
How much oil does it take to raise a steer to slaughter? |
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buy more organic foods |
Individual consumers can change…(list one thing) |
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they will provide more wholesome foods |
If YOU demand more wholesome foods, what will farmers do? |
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