Industrial Organic Food Chain

What does "organic" mean (the original meaning)?

• grown without fossil fuels
• grown without pesticides
• grown without chemical fertilizers
• all of the above

What brought on the idea of "organic" food?

• Food from the industrial food chain was too expensive
• People were becoming more aware of the environment because of the news and books.
• There was a shortage of food at the time.
• Farmers started to become more aware of the damage they were doing to the environment.

What are organic food co-ops?

• Large food corporations like Wal-Mart or Costco.
• Local farmers markets
• Neighbors getting together weekly and ordering food from their local farmer
• Stores like Whole Foods started the co-ops.

Why did the food co-ops go out of business?

• Large "organic" supermarkets like Whole Foods took over
• People got mad at each other when they ordered food
• Farmers couldn't keep up with the demand of the co-ops
• People lost interest in eating healthy.

Why did Michael Pollan refer to this food chain as "Industrial Organic"?

• It is organic because it is grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
• It is industrial because the food is grown on large monoculture farms.
• Most of the food is processed and sold by the same food chain as industrial.
• all of the above

When did the organic food companies begin to boom?

• after the Alar scare in 1990
• after fish were poisoned in the rivers
• when farmers gave up on their farms and sold out
• when food prices began to soar

What were some rules about organic food that critics thought were fraudulent?

• the food had to be shipped
• the food had to be frozen
• synthetic additives and preservatives can be used

How does Greenways Farms weed their fields?

• water weed seeds
• plow, plow, plow
• burn the weeds when crops get high
• all of the above

The above process for killing weeds is just as bad for the land as chemical fertilizers.

• true
• false

Big corporations now own most of the "organic" farms.

• true
• false