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particular cause or point of view is called _________________ - ✔✔Propaganda
What is unique about the diet of the Inuit people of Greenland? - ✔✔it's dominated by meat
Approximately what percentage (%) of the land in the continental U.S. is devoted to farmland? -
✔✔20
In the U.S. today, it takes approximately ____ acre(s) to feed one person. - ✔✔1
Globally from 1998 - 2011, farmland acreage INCREASED in ____________________ . -
✔✔Africa and South America
During the "Diversion" lecture, Lauren showed a New York Times article that said the U.S. is
losing _____ acres of farmland per minute - ✔✔2
The majority of farmland lost in the U.S. in the last 50 years is in which region of the U.S.? -
✔✔East Coast (Maine through Florida)
One of the primary advantages fossil fuels have over biofuels is: - ✔✔they are already in a
more usable form
The "Food vs. Fuel" debate in the U.S. is focused the use of ___________ to make
____________. - ✔✔Corn / Ethanol
,The U.S. Energy Policy Acts of 2005 and 2007 weighed in significantly in the "Food vs. Fuel"
debate by - ✔✔Requiring the use of specific amount of renewable fuel by specific time
frames
During the "Diversion" lecture, we watch a video at the end that showed the impact of U.S.
corn prices on ____________. - ✔✔Mexico
We watched a VIDEO at the start of the "Food Fads" lecture about an isolated group of people
in Afghanistan who live a ______________ lifestyle. - ✔✔Pastoral (based on domesticated
animals)
Foods "Fads" rely on which persuasive advertising technique? - ✔✔Bandwagon
In the early 1900s, Dr. ____________ touted the evils of a meat (i.e., protein/fat) based diet
being consumed by most Americans and wanted to replace it with a carbohydrate-based diet -
✔✔Kellogg
In the early 2000s, Dr. ____________ touted the evils of a carbohydrate-based diet being
consumed by most Americans and wanted to replace it with a protein/fat based diet -
✔✔Atkins
We watched an Anti-Humane Society of the U.S. Video focused on Lawyers that used which
persuasive advertising technique? - ✔✔Humor
Decade with food fad
1920s - ✔✔Jell-o
Decade with food fad
1930s - ✔✔Casseroles
, Decade with food fad
1940s - ✔✔SPAM and Canned Soup
Decade with food fad
1950s - ✔✔TV Dinners
Decade with food fad
1960s - ✔✔Fondue
A movie, television or radio program that provides a factual record or report is known as a
____________ . - ✔✔Documentary
"Food Inc." uses negative imagery to put commercial agriculture in a "bad light". - ✔✔True
"Food, Inc." blames ________________ with creating the negative impacts of the fast food
culture in the United States - ✔✔McDonald's
"Food, Inc." advocates that ________________ colludes to purposely keep information about
food from consumers - ✔✔big Agriculture and Food Companies
We are more removed today from the production of our food than ever before. - ✔✔True
"Food, Inc." touts that the meat aisle in modern grocery stores contains NO ____________. -
✔✔Bones
"Food, Inc." features Polyface Farms, whose owner condemns modern agriculture, but still
uses: - ✔✔all of the above
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