Questions of Health & Vitmins Questions

Food Inc. Questions (worth 2 points each)- Movie can be checked out from WOU library. Also can be found on Netflix.

Updates from movie (2011):  http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/film-update/

1. Whose responsibility do you think it is to inform us about what is in our food? Is it our responsibility to find, the producer's responsibility to make it more clear, or both? Why?

2. In your opinion who is responsible for Kevin's death? Why? How do we protect consumers, and should businesses be protected too? Expand on your thoughts...

3. Do you think healthy eating should be a right, responsibility, or a privilege? Explain...

4. Whether or not you think undocumented workers is a problem, how is illegal immigration connected to the food we eat? Possible solutions?

5. From Monsanto's perspective, it is expensive to develop new seeds (like those discussed in the film), and the seeds save farmers time and enable them to produce more soy beans. What might be the consequences, both positive and negative, of the company owning the genetic info of the seed?