1. You’ll Never Look at Dinner the Same Again

2. Journal (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?

3. Journal (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?

4. Journal (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?

5. 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.

6. Journal (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?

7. 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.

8. Journal (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? Shocks to the System  What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system, and what would be their impact?

9. Journal (include with your next portfolio)  What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system, and what would be their impact?

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