AGN 115 MSU Exam 1 | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version

In Fresh (2009), Michael Pollan (author of Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food) makes exaggerated, false, or misleading statements about _____. Select ALL that apply. - animal waste from CAFO lagoons being too concentrated for use as fertilizer a lack of government subsidies for growing healthy food changes in the nutritional values of food since1950 Order the following ecological levels of organization from least (1) to most (4) complex. (Ch 2) - 1. Ecosystem 2. community 3. population 4. Organism All of the following have contributed to decreasing local control over agriculture, EXCEPT ______. (Ch. 1) - -the diminished share of the food dollar going to farmers relative to distributors and marketers -decreasing ecological stability from traditional farming techniques "Presence of many earthworms per square foot (900 cm2)." Would normally be associated with: - good soil health Word choice and selection of sources of information are important indicators of potential bias in a publication, such as Dr. Gliessman's use of the terms "industrial agriculture" and "pesticide treadmill", and his heavy reliance on the publications of Dr. Pimentel as sources of data. - True Traditional agroecosystems normally depend (i.e. rely) on externally purchased inputs. - FalseHistorically (e.g. 1993), about ___% of corn produced in the USA was used for cattle feed while 15% of it was used to produce ethanol. In 2013 about 40% was used for livestock feed while about ___% was used for ethanol production. - 75;40 "Reliance on synthetic or mineral fertilizer." This would normally be associated with: - Conventional Agriculture Thomas Malthus, an Anglican rector with a good mind for mathematics, became concerned about the inevitability of widespread human misery. In a 1798 essay, he forecast that widespread starvation and conflict would be the result of food production increasing ________ while human reproduction increased ________. - linearly, exponentially In Fresh, Michael Pollan asserts that many of the problems for producers and consumers in the prevailing food system in America is due to ________. - the consolidation of control from seeds to processing of products by a few, large co