LESSON 3

• Global awareness
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

www.worldometers.info

1. Describe what you see in this fragment. 

2. Food Inc. is a critical documentary. Name two things that it is critical 

about in this fragment. 

3. Can you think of an argument that someone in favor of this way of producing would say?

4. Do you also think this is a positive thing? 

Explain your answer using at least one good argument.

 

Please copy these questions in your notebook

LESSON 3

• Check homework
• Watch the video and put the description in the right order
•  Instruction assignment
• Time to work= Explain the green words and/or read the booklet

 Food inc.is a 2008 American documentary film. It examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees. 

The film examines the modern food industry, and raises alarms about both the industrial production of meat (chicken, beef, and pork) and the modern methods used to grow grains and vegetables (primarily corn and soybeans). It discusses the dominance of the American food market by a handful of huge corporations, which work to keep consumers from being aware of how their food is produced and are largely successful in their efforts to avoid such things as stronger food safety laws, the unionization of their workers, and additional food labeling regulations. These companies promote unhealthy food consumption habits among the American public and then supply cheap, inadequately safety-tested, increasingly genetically-modified food that is produced and transported using methods that exploit livestock, employees, farmers, and the environment and use large amounts of petroleum products.Eating organic, locally-grown food that is in season and reading product labels are offered as solutions, and the rapid growth of the organic food industry seen as providing hope for the future.

Copy the 6 green keywords/sentences and give a definition in your own words

What do you already know about GMOs?

wild strawberry 

GMO strawberry 

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