| true | Today, 100 percent of the process tomatoes grown in California are mechanically harvested. |
| true | Most additives are purposely put in food and are legal. |
| false | Studies have revealed that children who eat organic foods have concentrations of pesticide residues just as high as those who eat nonorganic foods. |
| false | Milk Protein Concentrates (MPCs) and casein (a milk protein) are legal food additives imported and used by U.S. dairy processing companies to make various milk and cheese products. |
| true | Research indicates that crops exposed to manufactured fertilizers (especially high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus), as compared to organic fertilizers, lose their ascorbic acid content more rapidly after harvest. |
| false | Now that a ban has been placed on using tissue from ‘animals like themselves' as an ingredient in animal feed, there is no longer any danger of U.S. and Canadian cows consuming bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-infected cows. |
| false | Bacterial resistance to an antibiotic that is developed while under attack is referred to as intrinsic resistance. |
| false | Surveys reveal that adults generally have higher levels of man-made, potentially harmful chemicals in their blood and urine than children. |
| false | North American manufacturers are required to label genetically modified (GM) foods. |
| true | Hydrolyzed proteins (used along with water to bulk up chicken) are proteins extracted by chemical hydrolysis from old animals, or parts of animals which cannot be used for food, such as skin, hide, and bone. |
| true | All fruits and vegetables sold in supermarkets today, generally contain fewer nutrients and more carbohydrates than they did 50 years ago. |
| true | Mixtures of many chemicals and pollutants may be more dangerous when blended together than any one of them is alone. |
| true | If the soil is lacking nutrients, so too will be the plants and, ultimately, those animals who eat the plants. |
| true | Manufactured nitrogen fertilizers react differently with crops and soils than do organic nitrogen sources such as manures or legume crops. |
| false | The use of organic fertilizers does not affect the concentration of any plant vitamins. |
| true | Nanotechnology is presently being used by researchers in Thailand to modify rice varieties. |
| true | Small differences in blood levels of essential trace elements or nutrients can disrupt the body's ability to maintain homeostasis. |
| true | Manufacturing fertilizers requires the use of massive amounts of non-renewable resources. |
| false | Artificially gassing green tomatoes with ethylene during or just after transport in special "ripening rooms" has the same effect as natural ripening in terms of producing redness, flavor and texture. |
| true | Bromate, found in bottled water from the British market and in the eggs of Great Lakes herring gulls, is similar in structure and behavior to PCBs. |
| a. All-beef
b. Chicken
c. Turkey
d. Blended beef and pork
e. Vegetarian | What is the only kind of hot dog that contains a reasonable amount of food value? |
| a. An "evaporation pond" which collects drainage water from 500,000 acres of farmland in the Imperial Valley, California.
b. Another name for the Dead Sea (which lies between Israel and the West Bank and Jordan) which is used to collect irrigation run-off from nearby farmland.
c. An expanse of saline water connected to the Pacific ocean
d. The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, which has also been called "America's Dead Sea" or the "Salton Sea. | What is the Salton Sea? |
| a. The tomatoes used for processing into canned or other products mostly come from California.
b. Especially during winter, the tomatoes used for fresh-market tomatoes mostly come from Florida
c. During winter, due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Florida tomato producers now have to compete with Mexico.
d. In summer, Canada supplies some of its own tomatoes mostly from British Columbia | Which one of the following statements is FALSE? |
| a. Salmonella
b. Tetanus
c. Pfiesteria piscicida
d. West Nile virus | Due to the segregation of livestock from crops in industrial farms and the use of manufactured fertilizers in place of manure or silage effluent, the disposal of huge masses of manure has become a problem and source of contamination to humans. Which one of the following is not an infection that can be transmitted to humans via manure? |
| a. To prevent a drop in meat or milk production
b. To compensate for unsanitary, overcrowded conditions
c. To maximize profit.
d. All of the above | Why are animals, used for food production, given preventive doses of antibiotics? |
| a. One-third
b. Two-thirds
c. One-half
d. One quarter | Agriculture accounts for ____________ of all water drawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers (layers of rock or soil able to hold or transmit much water). |
| a. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers the majority of agrochemicals (e.g., herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides) to be harmless.
b. California is the number one agricultural state in the U.S, accounts for 55% of the nation's farm production and is highly dependent on irrigation.
c. Excessive water supply to crops may increase their yield but reduces flavor and vitamin C content and may increase soil salinization in the long-run.
d. According to the EPA, agriculture is the largest nonpoint source of water pollution in North America. | Identify which one of the following statements is FALSE. |
| a. The Victus Libri
b. The World Health and Safety Standard
c. The Codex Alimentarius
d. The International Food Safety and Quality Standard | What is the name of the single international food safety standard established and administered by a joint UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO)? |
| a. Uniformity
b. Compartmentalization
c. Simplicity
d. a and c | Industrial farming favors ________________ over variety and diversity. |
| a. Hybrids
b. Less able to "breed true" in subsequent seasons
c. Offspring of genetically dissimilar parents
d. All of the above | Many high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of plants bred by scientists are: |
| a. Guillain-Barré Syndrome
b. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CID)
c. Bacterial Meningitis
d. Minamata Disease | What is the name of the untreatable and fatal disease that develops in people who have eaten the beef from cattle infected with "Mad cow" disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)? |
| a. Magnesium
b. Calcium
c. Phosphorus
d. Iron | Lead (a heavy metal) displaces the beneficial metal___________ in the blood, but unlike _____________ cannot carry oxygen. |
| a. The loss of habitat as more land is brought under cultivation (farm expansion)
b. Changing seed sowing time
c. Monocropping
d. Mechanization
e. All of the above | Industrial farming practices that threaten wildlife or the diversity of nature include: |
| a. Nutritional content of foods produced.
b. Environmental protection
c. Yield/ profit
d. Biodiversity | What is the primary concern of the huge, multinational agribusiness corporations? |
| a. Topsoil erosion
b. Soil aeration
c. Salinization
d. Loss of fertility | Which one of the following is not a long-term negative effect of industrial farming on soil? |
| a. Marinated in a solution of water and other ingredients that may include salt, phosphates, antioxidants, and flavorings.
b. Seasoned with a variety of natural herbs and spices to ensure the meat retains moisture and is flavorful.
c. Injected with a solution of water and other ingredients that may include salt, phosphates, antioxidants, and flavorings.
d. Taken from animals especially bred and fed a diet that enhances flavor and moisture content of their meat. | "Enhanced" meat, "pre-seasoned" meat, or "moisture-enhanced" meat is meat that has been: |
| a. It was used in the Vietnam War to chemically destroy tree and crop cover.
b. It causes cancer and birth defects.
c. It is produced as a byproduct of numerous industrial manufacturing processes.
d. It tends to concentrate in certain food products, especially fruits and vegetables.
e. It is now present to such an extent in our North American food supply that women who plan to have children in future are advised to limit their consumption of the foods it concentrates in. | Which one of the following statements regarding Dioxin (also known as Agent Orange or 2, 3, 7, 8 - tetrachlorodibenze-p-dioxin (TCDD) is FALSE? |
| a. Iron
b. Copper
c. Vitamin A
d. Vitamin C | Wilson's disease causes an excess of: |
| a. Lower in fat
b. Higher in omega-3 fatty acids
c. Higher in nutrients (particularly fat-soluble vitamins)
d. All of the above | As compared to the meat of animals raised on grain in factory-style feedlots, the meat of pasture-raised, grass-fed animals is: |
