HLTH 235 Mini-quiz 1

As portrayed in the documentary *Food, Inc.* and outlined in the assigned reading by Tony Weis, some of the *unintended* consequences of the industrialized food system include:

a) an abundant supply of food that doesn't cost the consumer very much to buy

b) 

convenience foods

c) efficiencies in processing food, including meat

d) environmental problems such as pollution of water by nutrients and animal manure, pesticide resistance in weeds, and pollution of crop gene pools by genetically modified crops

e) all of the above

environmental problems such as pollution of water by nutrients and animal manure, pesticide resistance in weeds, and pollution of crop gene pools by genetically modified crops

According to the film Food, Inc, corn can be grown so cheaply in the US because:

a) corn grows like a weed in many parts of the US

b) corn doesn't need much water or fertilizer

c) the production of corn is highly subsidized by the US government

d) (a) and (b)

d) (a) and (b)

* corn grows like a weed in many parts of the US
* corn doesn't need much water or fertilizer

As Dr. Power explained, supply management of dairy, eggs, and chicken:

a) is a unique feature of Canadian agriculture that coordinates supply and sets the price, taking production costs into account

b) is the most important reason why there are "boom & bust" cycles in Canadian agriculture that puts more and more small farmers out of business

c) provides unfair government subsidies to the richest farmers in Canada

d) ensures that farmers have a steady, reliable income, and prices for Canadian consumers are less volatile than in the US

e) (a) and (d)

f) (b) and (c)

g) none of the above

e) (a) and (d)

* is a unique feature of Canadian agriculture that coordinates supply and sets the price, taking production costs into account
* ensures that farmers have a steady, reliable income, and prices for Canadian consumers are less volatile than in the US

According to the course reading by Susan Miller:

a) decolonization is a futile attempt to return to the past, to the way things were before colonization

b) colonialism's essential activity is to extract resources from colonized lands and peoples

c) revitalizing Indigenous languages is at the heart of Indigenous decolonization work because language reflects a unique worldview that includes knowledge of diet and food systems

d) all of the above

e) (b) and (c)

e) (b) and (c)

* colonialism's essential activity is to extract resources from colonized lands and peoples

According to the course reading by Amitav Ghosh

a) Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island (what is now known as North America) viewed the livestock (especially cows and pigs) brought by European settlers to be a great improvement over their traditional food systems because they were domesticated and a much more reliable source of food than wild animals

b) in the mid-1800s, the US government protected the buffalo herds on the Great Plains of the US after they were almost hunted to extinction by irresponsible farmers who were angry that buffalo trampled their corn crops

c) the cows and pigs brought to Turtle Island by the European settlers caused immense ecological damage, including worsened erosion, conversion of forests into farmlands, and elimination of native grasses, and thus damaging or destroying the food systems of Indigenous peoples

d) the US army decided to slaughter buffalo on the US Great Plains between 1865 and 1883 as a strategy of war against the Lakota-Cheyenne-Arapaho Indigenous alliance, who depended on the buffalo for food

e) (a) and (b)

f) (c) and (d)

f) (c) and (d)

* the cows and pigs brought to Turtle Island by the European settlers caused immense ecological damage, including worsened erosion, conversion of forests into farmlands, and elimination of native grasses, and thus damaging or destroying the food systems of Indigenous peoples


* the US army decided to slaughter buffalo on the US Great Plains between 1865 and 1883 as a strategy of war against the Lakota-Cheyenne-Arapaho Indigenous alliance, who depended on the buffalo for food