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Governamental Influences on food choices

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is one way the government influences your food choices?

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2.

What is one way to prevent the government from changing your food choices?

(Choose all that apply)

a)

Stop creating requirements that assume consumers do not have the information necessary to make informed food choices.

b)

giving food to needy consumers.

c)

Prohibit federal funding to state and local governments that would be used to enforce food bans.

d)

encouraging farmers to grow certain crops or manage their crops in certain ways.

3.

How is the government an influence on our food?

(choose all that apply)

a)

letting you eat whatever you want without any limits

b)

by monitoring foods to ensure that approved chemicals and environmental contaminants are within permissible levels.

c)

personally telling you to buy a specific product

d)

targeting specific crops for production through subsidies or incentives to encourage farmers to grow them over others.

4.

(True or False.) The government influences our food choices by controlling how products are transported and processed.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

(True or False.) Some of the ways that the government can influence our food system include laws, regulations, subsidies, taxes, and crop insurance programs.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

How can the government make healthy food cheaper?

a)

Supporting the sale of local foods across the community by offering incentives and encouraging the establishment of farmers' markets.

b)

Promoting policies that support and protect community gardens.

7.

(True or False) The government control prices of food.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

What is "Supply and Demand"?

a)

the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.

b)

an excessive amount of a product that is the result of when demand is lower than supply, resulting in a surplus.

c)

an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right.

d)

to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice.

9.

What is the role of the government in the food industry?

a)

collect taxes

b)

Let consumers get sick

c)

protect consumers against impure, unsafe, and fraudulently labeled products.

10.

Why is it important to become aware of how the government affects your food choices?

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11.

The (a)   is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs.