FST Exam 1 – Comprehensive Study Guide & Practice Test Review
Food Studies - correct answer ✔✔understanding food as a system: "From farm to fork" and
beyond. reconnecting consumers and producers. Interdisciplinary bridging (of everything to
economics / scholars / etc.) Emerging field: food studies as a movement = constantly changing.
Geography of food: expose the "unrecorded social lives" of food. Why now? Food is public = lost
knowledge, exposed contradictions, growing interest in taste, craft and authenticity. = Efforts to
address food system contradictions. 3 central premises: 1) food is both symbolic and material.
2) Food is an important part of social life. 3) Food is complex.
Food Chains (production, processing, distribution,consumption,waste) - correct answer
✔✔Production-growing crops and raising animals. Processing-transformation of food and raw
ingredients into products for consumers (heating, cooling, mixing, packaging). Distribution-
transporting and storing food and ingredients = retail-->selling food to consumers.
Consumption-eating. Waste-spoiled and uneaten food = post-consumption, process by-products
Industrial Eater - correct answer ✔✔eat foods from mass industrial production. Advantage-
cheaper price. Disadvantage: taste and nutrition may be damaged.
Neglecting food - correct answer ✔✔Unit recently, food was not respected in the academy?
Why? prioritization of mind over body. Separation of production and consumption. Food as
women's work. Food as necessity and burden. Has meant drudgery for cooks, workers, farmers,
servers, etc. Disappearing food through technology (factories, appliances, interstate,
refrigerated cars.trucks, modern kitchen)
Distancing - correct answer ✔✔lost cultural practices of production and consumption. serious
problems for health and environment. System break-down-> political rights are distinct
economical rights.
Agricultural Revolution - correct answer ✔✔Contemporary agro-food systems created thru 3
revolutions. 1) First (-10,000 BCE) secondary agriculture, seeds, storage. 2) Second (18th C)
, synthetic fertilizers. 3) Third (early 20th C) "Green" revolution, mechanization, oil,
manufacturing. 4)GMO??
System - correct answer ✔✔Set of connected things that form a complex whole. Group of
elements organized such as each one is on some way interdependent with every other element.
Food system - correct answer ✔✔set of interlinked institutions and processes that transform
solar energy, water and soil nutrients into food. Includes a series of related elements that
provides food to a community. (social, political, economic, environmental) Comprised of people
(workers, farmers, retailers, marketers, consumers) institutions, nature (external environment ),
actions of these elements. cost and consequences of industrial food system--> social, public
health, environmental impacts. Alternative Food systems --> efforts to build local and regional
food systems. Strive to be sustainable and address harms associated with food studies. Reduce
pollution, conserve finite resources, promote public health, uphold justice.
Foodways - correct answer ✔✔the patterns that establish "what we eat a well as how and why
and under what circumstances we eat". Racial background, personal finances, what you hear
about. Heterogenous --> produced by multiple forces. Reflect social inequality. Are dynamic and
constantly changing. Diverse and are produced by multiple sources.
Contradictions - correct answer ✔✔a combination of features that are opposed to one another.
Opposition inherent within a system. Contradictions produced by the conventional food system
do not cancel each other but actually define each other. Ex) conventional food system a)
Produces vast quantities of food and b) growing hunger. with a) being contrary to b).
Ex)globalized food system. a) provides access to diverse array of cuisine. b) Pushes foodways
toward homogeneity. With a) being contrary to b). Ex) industrial food system. a) Requires vast
amount of freshwater. b) leading source of freshwater pollution and water waste. With a) being
contrary to b).
Social Inequality - correct answer ✔✔persistent patterns in which some people enjoy more
material and cultural privileges than others.
Food Studies - correct answer ✔✔understanding food as a system: "From farm to fork" and
beyond. reconnecting consumers and producers. Interdisciplinary bridging (of everything to
economics / scholars / etc.) Emerging field: food studies as a movement = constantly changing.
Geography of food: expose the "unrecorded social lives" of food. Why now? Food is public = lost
knowledge, exposed contradictions, growing interest in taste, craft and authenticity. = Efforts to
address food system contradictions. 3 central premises: 1) food is both symbolic and material.
2) Food is an important part of social life. 3) Food is complex.
Food Chains (production, processing, distribution,consumption,waste) - correct answer
✔✔Production-growing crops and raising animals. Processing-transformation of food and raw
ingredients into products for consumers (heating, cooling, mixing, packaging). Distribution-
transporting and storing food and ingredients = retail-->selling food to consumers.
Consumption-eating. Waste-spoiled and uneaten food = post-consumption, process by-products
Industrial Eater - correct answer ✔✔eat foods from mass industrial production. Advantage-
cheaper price. Disadvantage: taste and nutrition may be damaged.
Neglecting food - correct answer ✔✔Unit recently, food was not respected in the academy?
Why? prioritization of mind over body. Separation of production and consumption. Food as
women's work. Food as necessity and burden. Has meant drudgery for cooks, workers, farmers,
servers, etc. Disappearing food through technology (factories, appliances, interstate,
refrigerated cars.trucks, modern kitchen)
Distancing - correct answer ✔✔lost cultural practices of production and consumption. serious
problems for health and environment. System break-down-> political rights are distinct
economical rights.
Agricultural Revolution - correct answer ✔✔Contemporary agro-food systems created thru 3
revolutions. 1) First (-10,000 BCE) secondary agriculture, seeds, storage. 2) Second (18th C)
, synthetic fertilizers. 3) Third (early 20th C) "Green" revolution, mechanization, oil,
manufacturing. 4)GMO??
System - correct answer ✔✔Set of connected things that form a complex whole. Group of
elements organized such as each one is on some way interdependent with every other element.
Food system - correct answer ✔✔set of interlinked institutions and processes that transform
solar energy, water and soil nutrients into food. Includes a series of related elements that
provides food to a community. (social, political, economic, environmental) Comprised of people
(workers, farmers, retailers, marketers, consumers) institutions, nature (external environment ),
actions of these elements. cost and consequences of industrial food system--> social, public
health, environmental impacts. Alternative Food systems --> efforts to build local and regional
food systems. Strive to be sustainable and address harms associated with food studies. Reduce
pollution, conserve finite resources, promote public health, uphold justice.
Foodways - correct answer ✔✔the patterns that establish "what we eat a well as how and why
and under what circumstances we eat". Racial background, personal finances, what you hear
about. Heterogenous --> produced by multiple forces. Reflect social inequality. Are dynamic and
constantly changing. Diverse and are produced by multiple sources.
Contradictions - correct answer ✔✔a combination of features that are opposed to one another.
Opposition inherent within a system. Contradictions produced by the conventional food system
do not cancel each other but actually define each other. Ex) conventional food system a)
Produces vast quantities of food and b) growing hunger. with a) being contrary to b).
Ex)globalized food system. a) provides access to diverse array of cuisine. b) Pushes foodways
toward homogeneity. With a) being contrary to b). Ex) industrial food system. a) Requires vast
amount of freshwater. b) leading source of freshwater pollution and water waste. With a) being
contrary to b).
Social Inequality - correct answer ✔✔persistent patterns in which some people enjoy more
material and cultural privileges than others.
