Omnivore's Dilemma: Chapter 11
The book Omnivore's Dilemma is written based on the authors real life experiences in regards to meals. It is a recommended book for nutritionists especially. If you have read chapter 11 take this quiz and see what you can remember.
- 1.Does Rosie, the free range chicken, have access to the outdoors?
- A.
No
- B.
Yes
- C.
Technically she does, after she is 5 weeks old. However, by that time, she has spent her entire life indoors, and doesn't even know to walk out the door.
- 2.Rosie is a special "Breed" of chicken. What is special about Rosie? Choose three.
- A.
She was specifically bred for the industrial food chain
- B.
She goes from birth to full grown chicken in 10 weeks.
- C.
She goes from birth to full grown chicken in 7 weeks.
- D.
Often, by the time she is bred, she has grown so rapidly that she is too big to walk.
- 3.Is organic food better for you?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- C.
Probably, but it hasn't been scientifically proven.
- 4.On p. 136, Pollan talks about "Eating Oil." Does he mean that we are literally eating oil?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- C.
He means that it takes a lot of oil to transport the food
- 5.What are some of the advantages that the organic industrial food chain has over the non-organic industrial food chain? Choose 4.
- A.
No pesticides entered farmworker's blood streams
- B.
No nitrogen seeped into the watershed.
- C.
No soils were poisoned
- D.
No ice cream was eaten
- E.
No small children were sacrificed
- F.
No government subsidy checks were written.
- 6.Nonetheless, there are still a number of problems with the organic industrial food chain. Choose three.
- A.
Wages and working conditions for farmworkers are still pretty bad/
- B.
The food still isn't as tasty as McDonald's.
- C.
Organic factory farm chickens live only slightly better lives than non-organic factory farm chickens.
- D.
"Organic" Cattle are still fed corn, and often do not spend any real time in a pasture.
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