NUFD 153 EXAM 2 Questions with Detailed Verified
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Regional Fare Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Food produced within the same region as where the consumer lives
-homestyle food prepared with local ingredients
Food companies in NJ Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Goya inc, Campbell soup, Lipton
New england regional food Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Fish (lobster, cod), One pot meals, Beans, Pies savory
Makah Indians Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Whaling
tribe from Washington State, reinstated their tribal whale hunts to preserve traditional culture
Five steps in food system Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Production- grown, harvested, raised. happens regionally,
depends on whether/climate
Processing- Change in structure, packaging, shipping
Purchase- ability to access the food
Consumption- influences on food to consume
Discard- waste, garbage, recycle
Food System Input Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Machinery- how it is harvested, different technologies influence
how plants are picked
Transportation
Factories; human resources (labor, research, education)
water consumption in agriculture Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Agriculture accounts for about 70% of fresh water
consumption.
-needs new system on how to use water in a sustainable way
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What are fossil fuels? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ coal, oil, natural gas
-eight times what it used to be
Cattle industry Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ One of the largest based on cash receipts.
-provides b vitamins, zinc, medicine,
concerns
-environment, sat fat, use of antibiotics
Where are consumers purchasing food? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Grocery stores (Walmart the biggest)
Farmers market
Fast food
Monsanto Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The largest American agriculture company that researches agritechnology
and sells genetically modified seeds and other agriculture products globally.
aqua advantage salmon Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -Same biologically and nutritionally as an atlantic salmon,
received FDA approval in 2015
-Inserted gene for growth hormone from Chinnok salmon under regulation of promoter from Ocean
Pout
Amount of calories needed for food security Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 2,100
food security- enough food for a healthy active life
Most food insecure region in the world? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Sub-saharan Africa
food waste Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -22 million pounds of uneaten food per year
-any edible food that is discarded, such as uneaten servings on plate
-College students waste 142 pounds
fair trade Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and
worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair
wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
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