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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Salatin doesn't follow the USDA guidelines by processing his _________ in an open air building without any walls.
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Fruits.
(d) Chickens.

2. To help combat how much a person can eat, the food industry has created ________ starch that can allow people to eat more.
(a) Combatant.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Resistant.

3. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.
(a) Packaging.
(b) Value.
(c) Prices.
(d) Sugars.

4. The farm and the human are two ________ natural systems that the food industry relies on.
(a) Perfect.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Malleable.

5. In the early 19th century, Americans were drinking more alcohol, which cause the Alcohol _________.
(a) Issue.
(b) Economy.
(c) Boozefest.
(d) Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some believe that human ________ is different from that of animals because humans are capable of suffering.

2. The idea behind grass farming is that the ________ is the most natural and renewable source of energy.

3. What is the process by which corn is changed into different parts?

4. Who did Pollan ask for a detailed account of what happens when a steer is processed?

5. The grass also gets a chance to ________ when the cattle is moved around.

(see the answer key)

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