You’ll Never Look at Dinner the Same Again

Journal (3 sentences each minimum; include with your next portfolio) Fast Food to All Food  Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? Explain.  Do animals have feelings?  Do you think how we treat the animals we raise for food is important to their health?  Do you think the health of an animal raised for food would affect the health of those people who eat its meat?

Handout: “Raising Chickens”  Complete handout and include with your portfolio

Journal (3 sentences each minimum; include with your next portfolio) A Cornucopia of Choices  Do people have the right to know what is in their food? Why/Why not? Unintended Consequences  Who’s responsible for keeping our food safe? Why?

Journal (3 sentences each minimum; include with your next portfolio) The Dollar Menu  Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone? Explain. In the Grass  When deciding what to eat, how much should we consider the workers who pick, process, and transport it?

Warm-up (include in portfolio) BACKPACKCARCELL PHONE JEANSPENCILSHAMPOO SHOESSOCKSTV  Indicate those products for which low cost would be your top priority. For the other products, name the factors you would consider a greater priority than cost.

Handout: “A Review of Seeds and Plant Reproduction”  Read the article, underlining sentences that describe the importance of seeds and circling sentences that describe a societal conflict involving seeds. Refer to what you circled and write a one-sentence statement or question summarizing the debate.

Journal (3 sentences each minimum; include with your next portfolio) Hidden Costs  Does it matter to you which food companies produce your food? From Seed to Supermarket  Should companies be able to own the DNA contained in plant seeds?

Journal (3 sentences each minimum; include with your next portfolio) The Veil  Should a company have the power to decide what information to give consumers about the food it produces?

Handout: “Labels Survey”  Complete the handout and include with your portfolio.

Things You Can Do  Buy from companies that treat workers, animals, and the environment with respect.  When you go to the supermarket, choose foods that are in season. Buy foods that are organic. Know what’s in your food. Read labels.  The average meal travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the supermarket. Buy foods that are grown locally. Shop at farmers’ markets. Plant a garden. (Even a small one.)  Cook a meal with your family and eat together.  Everyone has a right to healthy food. Make sure your farmers’ market takes food stamps.  Ask your school board to provide healthy school lunches.  The FDA and USDA are supposed to protect you and your family. Tell Congress fund the Food Safety Modernization Act.  If you say grace, ask for food that will keep us and the planet healthy.  You can change the world with every bite.

Reflection Page  Each paragraph should be 4 sentences minimum.  Write a paragraph reflecting on things that you learned in the movie that were new to you and/or influenced the way you perceive the food you eat and where it comes from.  Then, write another paragraph about what individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system, and what would be their impact?

Topics for Research  Choose one of the topics for research from the wikispace that you would like to look into, and include that topic at the end of your portfolio. wikispace