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=** Food Inc ** = media type="custom" key="12371228" = =

The Chapters with updates on progress since the documentary was made

=1 FAST FOOD TO ALL FOOD =

=Focus Question: Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? =

=2 A CORNUCOPIA OF CHOICES =

=Focus Question: Do people have the right to know what is in their food? =

=3 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES =

=Focus Question: Who is responsible for keeping our food safe? =

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-kowalcyk/food-safety-bill-history_b_805283.html

=4 THE DOLLAR MENU =

=Focus Question: Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone? =

=5 IN THE GRASS =

=Focus Question: When deciding what to eat, how much should we consider the =

=workers who pick, process, and transport it? =

=6 HIDDEN COSTS =

=Focus Question: Does it matter to you which food companies produce your food? =

=7 FROM SEED TO THE SUPERMARKET =

=<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Focus Question: Should companies be able to own the DNA contained in plant =

=<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">seeds? =

=<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 THE VEIL =

=<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Focus Question: Should a company have the power to decide what information to =

=<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">give consumers about the food it produces? =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">** People and key references in the movie ** =


 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A. Upton Sinclairs //The Jungle// =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">B. Robert Kenner, filmmaker =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">C. Eric Schlosser, the industrialization of our food supply =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">D. Michael Pollan, the benefits of locally sourced organic eating =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">E. Marion Nestle, sorting out food facts from fiction =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">F. Muhammad Yunus, the global impact of food industrialization =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">G. Monsanto =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">H. Oprah and veggie libel laws =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I. Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">J. Anne Lappe, How the U.S. food system promotes global warming =
 * =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">K. Round-up and round-up resistant GMO seeds. =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">** Post-viewing discussion questions ** = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">1. To what extent is obesity a personal choice, and to what extent is it caused by the larger context the regulatory environment, systems of subsidies, food policy, marketing and advertising, urban design and political choices? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Do you know which agricultural products are subsidized, and whether that makes a difference to what people eat, and what is in most foods? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Is our industrialized food system making us unhealthy obese, diabetic and primed for heart disease? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Do you know people with diabetes? Do you know which groups of people in the U.S. have the highest rates or diabetes? Of obesity? = = <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">5. What role should the government play in a) regulating what people eat, b) informing people about what goes into their food, c) taxing, subsidizing, or incentivizing people to eat some things and not others? Examples: __<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">NYC __ <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">bans hydrogenated oils; soda taxes should taxes be added to soda__s__ the way taxes are to cigarettes, to discourage consumption, and help pay for the health costs? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Should there be a soda ban in schools? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Should manufacturers be required to list genetically modified food so consumers know about it? What about meat from cloned animals? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Researchers have begun splicing genes from one type of Salmon to another type of Salmon in order to produce much larger, faster growing fish. Would you eat these? Should they be labeled? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Should fast food restaurants be required to list nutrition information not just on walls, but on the package, so consumers more able to see it like health warning on cigarettes? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Is organic food healthier? Is it better for the environment and/or animals? Why? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Is the industrial food system unhealthy? Is it unethical? Is it unsafe? = =<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Are all the antibiotics put into animals a problem? Why are antibiotics used so often in food production? = = =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">** Discussion Question Resources ** = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> [|Food Inc. discussion guide] put together by the Center for Ecoliteracy. [|Lesson plans from PBS web] site for discussion of issues in //Food Inc.// More [|discussion questions], by Tracy Ore at St Cloud State. =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">The ideas in this [|op-ed] could be used to discuss possible solutions to the health problems associated with big food. Is education - labeling everything, demanding transparency, etc., enough? Or do we need to to tax or regulate unhealthy food? =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">SEE OECD report on obesity [] (a summary is [|here] ) "A new [|report] has found that over two-thirds of the U.S. population is currently overweight. The report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), [|says] that "soaring obesity rates make the US the fattest country in the OECD." More alarmingly, the problem of obesity in the U.S. is not limited to adults: America also has the highest rate of child obesity among developed nations. America, of course, is not alone among OECD nations in the struggle to deal with weight issues. In almost half of OECD countries, 50 percent or more of the population is now classified as overweight. Meanwhile, rates for obesity have doubled and even tripled in certain countries since 1980. Most tellingly, before 1980, the report states, rates of obesity in OECD countries were generally below 10 percent." =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> [|"Fiction vs. Fact": Monsanto produced a media guide] with criticism of the claims and strategies used in Food Inc. Could be used as part of discussion of claims and strategies. =

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">** Anti-Food Inc. sites/texts ** = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - meat industry’s website = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - Monsanto’s response to Food Inc. = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] – Video from hog farmer shows how individual sow housing benefits the animals - and people = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - Agriculture responses to Food, Inc….Compiled by American Agri-Women = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|http://www.startribune.com/business/48621957.html?page=all&prepage=2&c=y#continue] – Cargill Food co. CEO responds to Food Inc. = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - 2010 Animal Welfare Report from Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork producer = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - link for Smithfield Farms social responsibility reports = = = =<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">** Positive/Related Food Inc.: ** = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #114488; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;">[] = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] – Joel Salatin’s farm: Part 1 on //Meet the Farmer// = =<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - Materials for teaching related to //Fresh// documentary that will also work with Food Inc. = <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] - //Fresh// blog