Starter 3.12: Is factory farming worth the trade-offs? What you be willing to give up in order to have a different agricultural paradigm?
- Share Out: 3.6 (review) and 3.12
What is the deal with “Food Miles”?
Read/Annotate: Food Miles and Packaging: A Contrarian View
Table Groups: One person scribe your answers in a Google Doc and share with Jessica.
- What is his thesis?
- What are the main points that he makes to support his perspective?
- Brody asks: “Is the correlation of prosperity with processed and packaged foods nearly 1.0? Do you answer yes? Why or why not? Can you push back on this claim? How?
- How does the perspective of this article change or complicate how you are processing the book (if at all)?
- Come up with a Four Corners prompt related to this topic
FOUR CORNERS
The benefits of the industrial food system are worth the drawbacks
I would rather go back to local food systems of yesteryear even if it meant I sacrificed diversity