ANSWERS
1. True
2. He says that agriculture deals with living, biological systems; soil has the capacity to
regenerate, while industry is comprised of tools and technologies that invariably wear out and
need to be replaced; the family farm is a family’s home, and they are therefore completely
invested not just in its profitability, but in its health and longevity; and while agriculture is an
investment in the land, industry characteristically extracts — taking, and taking, and taking from
a resource until it is not just unhealthy, it is exhausted.
3. author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. food is something people eat, crops are something that are made into something else.
8. the perimeter
9. genetic engineering, global warming, fast food/processed foods
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