Post at least two discussion/thought questions here. These questions can relate to anything pertaining to food, Snowville Creamery, our readings, Food Inc., local food, whatever. Remember, your questions should be open-ended (no right answer necessarily) and should evoke discussion. They should not ask for clarification, or have a 'yes/no' answer.
Here's an example of a bad question: "What can I get at the Farmer's Market?" or "Where is Snowville Creamery anyway?"
Here's a good question (which was raised in class tonight): "Are corporations like Stonyfield or Kashi (i.e Kellogs) doing good or bad by becoming large corporations? Are they joining the problem or fighting against it?"
You may feel the need to give context or extra information along with your questions, and that's totally fine.
And remember: extra credit for any *good* questions asked during Warren's visit. (In other words, "Can you repeat that?" doesn't count.)
what are the nutrtitional diffrences between the meats of animals that are fed grain and the animals that are allowed to graze in a natural or "tradtitonal" farm style.
ReplyDeleteHow much more expensive would meat be if we switched to farm style.
what about cloned or sythetic meats?
The McBastards article says that McDonald's is a symbol of America. Is this something we should be proud of?
ReplyDeleteWould people still eat at fast food chains if the products cost more?
how do people really feel about the way feed lot animals are treated. Do we just turn our backs to it because it would be too much work to fix things, or are we as a society acually angry enough to say enought is enough?
ReplyDeleteAlso after all the work Teddy Roosevelt did to make food production better how did we as a society let it get this bad again? Like I said before deep down inside do we even care, or do we watch these films, and read these articles get mad and blame these corporations but forget about it because we are too busy.
How can these huge food industries/corporations just take control of all of the little farms and the little farms having no say in it. For example, Monsanto was claiming farms and basically saying their way or the highway. How is that legal?
ReplyDeleteWhere does our government fit into all of this chaos with the food corporations getting away with all this wrong doing? What are they doing to prevent this? Or, are they doing anything to prevent it?
Food Inc. brought to light a lot of issues with the food industry. And I mean A LOT. It seems that doing it all the wrong way has been profitable for so long that its hard for me to imagine the industry turning itself around. What are the possible solutions to all of these dilemmas. Will it ever be perfectly fine to buy at grocery chains? Can companies like Tyson ever justify their size with ethical and honest production and business practices? Or is the only good way to get food from small local organic markets?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wanted to discuss the cost of eating healthy. Do fast food restaurants need to raise their prices? Does the government need to give tax cuts to companies producing healthy food or provide exclusively healthy options to people on WIC, foodstamps or welfare?
How can the workers be treated the way they are if we have unions and workers rights?
ReplyDeleteAlthough it may be a monopoly, how can one company have complete control over the food system?
Since the transfer from a un-stainable food production system to a sustainable one can be pricey, is it our governments responsibility to pay the difference to aid in the process of America becoming more nutritionally healthy and sustainable?
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for there to be a balance between mass production of food and it being healthy food being produced?
Well if people see whats going on with the killing of many animals for really no real reason Why dont people stop it if its really true like on Food Inc. Why wont the government just end it now? And why do we make the foods that are healthly for us more expenseive than than the foods that give people Ecoli.
ReplyDeleteIn a society that has essentially been built by the very corporate ideologies that it has now labeled as "evil," is it even possible to make any real, lasting change? Or have we gone so far along with this socioeconomic structure that it would require a full-scale revolution to set everything straight?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that any time an issue is brought up, any solution posed is virtually impossible in our capitalist society.
Also, if we do someday manage to "straighten out" the corporate machines, what will happen to all of the benefits they bring? Will all of the positive attributes of corporations, such as the ones discussed in the "McBastards" article, just disappear?
how can we lower the costs of healthier, organic food?
ReplyDeleteCan the government intervene and lower taxes on healthier foods/restaurants? They should realize that this country truly needs to start eating healthier
How did this situation with feeding chemicals to our animals all begin?
ReplyDeleteWhy do people care so much about big business over the health and safety of the population?
Why are people willing to spend thousands of dollars of meaningless crap but when it comes to food, no matter how unhealthy it is for you, cheapness is the name of the game?
ReplyDeleteWho should take respnisibility for this growing problem in our society?
Why is it more expensive to be healthy in the U.S. and why doesn’t the government figure out a way to lower the expensive of organic food?
ReplyDeleteInstead of making laws that keep us from knowing the true ingredients in what we eat, why doesn’t the government let us know and make our own decisions? I feel like we in a way are being manipulated into not really thinking for ourselves.