Food+Inc.+Questions


 * Answer all the questions in bold and two that are not in bold. Please use complete sentences-2 to 4 sentences per question. **
 * 1) **How do you think farm animals should be treated? How do your ideas compare to what you saw in the film? **
 * 2) The movie points out that cows and farm-raised fish, which are not biologically suited to eating corn, are now given a modified diet that is based on corn. Doyou think people’s diets have been modified in a similar way? How do you feel about the possibility of your food being modified without you being aware of it?
 * 3) **The film gives the impression that food is either cheap or healthy. Do you think ****it is true that food is either one or the other, or is this false? **
 * 4) In the film, the mother, Maria Andrea Gonzalez, says, “We’re really tight from either paying for his [Alfredo Orozco’s] medicine to be healthy or buyingvegetables to be healthy.” Which should she choose if she cannot afford both?
 * 5) **How would you compare the slaughtering of the chickens by Polyface Farms (small-scale farm) ****to the slaughtering of the Smithfield (large factory) hogs? How do the workers’ conditions compare? **
 * 6) Author Michael Pollan uses the phrase “Vote with Your Fork” to mean that consumers have the ability to influence companies by what they choose to eat. Is there a way as a group, school, or town that we could possibly influence this situation?
 * 7) **What was the most shocking part of the film to you? **
 * 8) **What role does the government play in the problems with food? Please give two examples. **
 * 9) Many of us were surprised to learn that corn is so prevalent in our foods. Why do you think we were so surprised? Do you think the government and food producers have kept it a secret?
 * 10) Who should be held responsible for Kevin’s death in the film?
 * 11) How does the cheap price of processed food affect low-income families? Is this fair?
 * 12) **How does Fair Trade or NAFTA relate to the issue of food production? **
 * 13) What are your thoughts about Monsanto’s “monopoly” on certain seeds? Is this fair?