The Omnivore's Dilemma

Which detail supports the author's perspective?

Polyface Farm works with the natural processes of its animals to produce healthy food without impacting the environment or animals harmfully. (Choose 2 correct answers.)

• Joel Salatin says he is a "grass" farmer.

• Joel Salatin allows corn to ferment so that his pigs can dig through the compost to find the fermented corn.

• Joel moves his chickens into a pasture 3 days after the cows have left it so they can eat the larvae from cow manure.

• Joel Salatin invented the "egg mobile".

Identify the three of the four food chains Pollan follows the book:

• Cage-free

• Local Sustainable

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Industrial

• Farm to Table

Select ALL of the ways the forest surrounding Polyface benefit the farm.

• It keeps the farm's water supply from drying up.

• Cattle like to roam forests.

• It keeps the farm cooler in the summer.

• The grass can grow higher with the trees acting as a windbreak.

• It homes more wild birds which keeps the insect population low.

Are "Happy Meals" actually happy?

• no

• yes

Subsidize

• Support financially

• To Obtain something

• Withdrawing finances

• To follow a strict diet

Eating too much hit poor people the most, why?

• sugary and fat foods are cheaper

• organic foods are not available

• poor people eat more than rich people

• more corn is put in their food

Joel Salatin moves his chickens to where his cattle had been ___ days earlier to feast on the fattened larvae.

• 3-4

• 10-12

• 14

• 21

What is responsible for making corn the king of supermarkets?

• animal feed

• big agribusiness

• farmers

• the corn plant

What type of food chain involves you producing your own food?

• hunter/gatherer

• industrial

• local sustainable

• industrial organic

"Compared to all the other things we feed cattle these days, corn seems positively wholesome". Why does corn seem wholesome?

• Because it is a vegetable

• Because cows are fed corn, tallow, and chicken litter

• Because grass is not an alternative for cows to eat

• Because corn doesn't make them sick