QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025-2026
____ exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to
sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences
for an active and healthy life - CORRECT ANSWER-Food Security
____ is the right of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through
ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and
agriculture systems. - CORRECT ANSWER-Food Sovereignty
On Pantelleria, locals have devised a unique technique for growing grapevines in a
water limited environment. They: - CORRECT ANSWER-Dig conical terraces to plant
the vines below the normal ground level
Between 1964 and 2014, in Kama community of Italy, plant-based traditions related to
hunting and fishing largely disappeared from local practice - CORRECT ANSWER-True
Between 1964 and 2014, in Kama community of Italy, traditions related to edible fungi
have largely disappeared from local practice - CORRECT ANSWER-False
___ are gathered from the wild across the island of Pantelleria, Italy. Their flower buds
are fermented in a brine solution to create the final food product, which is sold on the
global market as a food condiment - CORRECT ANSWER-Capers
Which of the following is a problem presented by wild food collecting: - CORRECT
ANSWER-ALL OF THE ABOVE:
Seasonal
Danger of poisoning
Difficult to Gather
, Atlanta is situated in the Georgia plant Hardiness zone of 7/8. Which of the following
fruits would NOT be found growing in the Atlanta landscape? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Orange
Which of the following fruit trees requires the most care in the Georgia growing zones
due to its tendency to be susceptible to different diseases? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Peach
Out of all of the fruit crops in Georgia, _____ is grown and exported the most. -
CORRECT ANSWER-Blueberry
In the US, chicken is marketed as "antibiotic free'" has never been exposed to
antibiotics. - CORRECT ANSWER-False
Chickens have been bred to have the following features of interest to industrial
agriculture: - CORRECT ANSWER-Enlarged Breasts
Rapid Growth to Adult Bird
In 2016, in the USA, more than 30 million pounds of antibiotics were sold for use in
animals - CORRECT ANSWER-True
In the 1950s-60s, a popular method of preparing chicken for sale was to "carbonize" the
meat. This process involved: - CORRECT ANSWER-Coating the raw meat in Antibiotics
Thomas Jukes, when working at Ederle Pharmaceuticals, discovered that feeding
chicks the fermentation residue of ______ caused them to rapidly gain weight. -
CORRECT ANSWER-Adriamycin
Inclusion of antibiotics as growth promoters for chickens, pigs, and cattle: - CORRECT
ANSWER-Disrupts the gut microbiome of the animals
Helps animals gain weight faster