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Homework For Thursday: Read The Omnivore's Dilemma, Introduction-Chapter 4. Complete study questions.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Study Questions Introduction-Chapter 4
Introduction
1. What is meant by the term “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”? How does it relate to America’s modern industrial food chain?
2. How do you think this modern industrial food chain could put our health at risk?
Chapter 1
1. How are US-Americans “corn people”?
2. Explain how corn has advanced itself as a species with the help of human beings.
Chapter 2
1. What changes have occurred in farming in America in the last century?
2. What are GMO’s and why do they have many people concerned?
Chapter 3
1. How did farming in America turn from a sun-based system to a fossil-fuel based system?
2. What are the side effects of giving the industrial crops too much fertilizer?
3. Explain some ways that the US government has helped corn’s conquest.
Chapter 4
1. What is a commodity? How is commodity corn different than food corn?
2. Create a graphic representation of the “river of corn.”
