My Ideas:
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- If we changed our demand for food, could it change the food industry?
- What other diseases have been created like e coli because of the diets fed to the animals?
- Why aren't there laws against how big companies treat the animals?
- What's the difference between natural and organic vs "regular"?
- What does the use of corn say about farming today?
- How did we let a company like Monsanto get such control?
- Do the majority of people know about the genetically modified crops and that we're consuming them?
- False advertising with companies like Purdue and Tyson: false promises?
- Is there a reason why people aren't informed with what's going on in the food industry?
- Could farmer's markets help change the way we see our food being treated?
- Is there a possibility of them coming together as a group to try to show the truth behind food?
Tricia's Ideas:
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- Kevin's Law - What is the history of it and what is the status of it today?
- E-coli - How has it spread to be found in several food products?
- What is the life like of an employee at a meat packing plant? (what is their salary, what does a typical day in their life entail, etc.)
- Organic Foods - what are the benefits, what are the downfalls?
- Food Labels - why are they important? Should we pay more attention to them in order to be healthier?
- Tyson/Purdue - Their history & progress. How much control do they have over the meat industry today?
- Lower income families and their health - Is there another way around it besides eating fast food so often?
- Compare farmers who work for big meat companies & farmers who sell their own meat.
- The public's knowledge on the food they consume - how much do they truly know about what they buy and eat?
- Corn - how did it become one of the most used crops?
Amanda's Ideas:
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- Is there a cheaper way to provide healthier organic food?
- How are other countries controlling their farming and products being produced?
- Why are the food industries/corporate making a huge amount of money while the farmers are making not as nearly as much?
- Are there any benefits of engineering food besides providing food faster?
- What are the benefits of becoming vegetarian?
- Is fish getting enhanced as well? What are they doing to other products?
- How much meat should the average American eat in a year?
- How can you tell if the food that is labeled organic really organic and not the regular food?
- How many people have been affected by some kind of health issue from the food they eat?
- How many animals do we harm and kill from putting them in that environment and become sick or infected by disease?
Emily's Ideas:
__1. Is organic food really better for you than non-organic food?
2. What other companies raise farm animals the way that Tyson and Purdue do?
3. Does the fact that the FDA lowered their standard guidelines promote the industrialization of food in
America?
4. Is Kevin’s Law being enforced the way it was meant to be?
5. What would we, as Americans, have to do to fix the problems that are being caused by big corporations?
6. Would farms be able to yield the same amount of produce and meat that big corporations do to support the
current standards of living in the U.S.?
7. Does the decline of the farming industry in the United States play a role in the monopolizing of
corporations?
8. Does income level play a role in obesity?
9. Is it really industry vs. farms?
10. Why does it take the FDA so long to react to incidences concerning their mistakes?
2. What other companies raise farm animals the way that Tyson and Purdue do?
3. Does the fact that the FDA lowered their standard guidelines promote the industrialization of food in
America?
4. Is Kevin’s Law being enforced the way it was meant to be?
5. What would we, as Americans, have to do to fix the problems that are being caused by big corporations?
6. Would farms be able to yield the same amount of produce and meat that big corporations do to support the
current standards of living in the U.S.?
7. Does the decline of the farming industry in the United States play a role in the monopolizing of
corporations?
8. Does income level play a role in obesity?
9. Is it really industry vs. farms?
10. Why does it take the FDA so long to react to incidences concerning their mistakes?