Food Journal

Answer any two Focus Questions (using the two paragraph rule). DO NOT ANSWER ALL OF THESE!!!! CHOOSE TWO QUESTIONS ONLY.

1) Focus Question: Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life?

2) Focus Question: Do people have the right to know what is in their food?

3) Focus Question: Who is responsible for keeping our food safe?

4) Focus Question: When deciding what to eat, how much should we consider the

workers who pick, process, and transport it?

5) Focus Question: Does it matter to you which food companies produce your food?

6) Focus Question: Should companies be able to own the DNA contained in plant

seeds?

7) Focus Question: Should a company have the power to decide what information to

give consumers about the food it produces?

8) Focus Question: What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to

improve our food system, and what would be their impact?

9) “I want to create my own food/health-related question.”

Watch a Food Related Documentary this week…take notes. Our theme for the Argumentative unit is the food production industry in the U.S. Here are some suggestions:

1. Forks Over Knives (2011)
2. Sugar Coated (2015)
3. Food, Inc.
4. Cooked (2016)
5. Fed Up (2014)
6. Hungry For Change (2012)
7. That Sugar Film (2014)
8. Super Size Me (2004)
9. Food Matters (2008)
10. Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
11. Another Food related film.

You have to  watch any one video from last and write food health journal