You’ll Never Look at Dinner the
Same Again
Journal (3 sentences each minimum;
include with your next portfolio)
Fast Food to All Food
 Do animals have the right to a
certain quality of life? Explain.
 Do animals have feelings?
 Do you think how we treat
the animals we raise for food
is important to their health?
 Do you think the health of an
animal raised for food would
affect the health of those
people who eat its meat?
Handout: “Raising Chickens”
 Complete handout and include with your portfolio
Journal (3 sentences each minimum;
include with your next portfolio)
A Cornucopia of
Choices
Unintended
Consequences
 Do people have the right to
know what is in their food?
Why/Why not?
 Who’s responsible for
keeping our food safe?
Why?
Journal (3 sentences each minimum;
include with your next portfolio)
The Dollar Menu
In the Grass
 Should access to healthy
food be a right for
everyone? Explain.
 When deciding what to
eat, how much should we
consider the workers who
pick, process, and
transport it?
Warm-up (include in portfolio)
BACKPACK
CAR
CELL PHONE
JEANS
PENCIL
SHAMPOO
SHOES
SOCKS
TV
 Indicate those products for which low cost
would be your top priority. For the other
products, name the factors you would consider
a greater priority than cost.
Handout: “A Review of Seeds and
Plant Reproduction”
 Read the article, underlining sentences that describe the
importance of seeds and circling sentences that
describe a societal conflict involving seeds. Refer to what
you circled and write a one-sentence statement or
question summarizing the debate.
Journal (3 sentences each minimum;
include with your next portfolio)
Hidden Costs
From Seed to
Supermarket
 Does it matter to you which
food companies produce
your food?
 Should companies be able
to own the DNA contained
in plant seeds?
Journal (3 sentences each minimum;
include with your next portfolio)
The Veil
 Should a company have
the power to decide what
information to give
consumers about the food
it produces?
Handout: “Labels Survey”
 Complete the handout and include with your portfolio.
Things You Can Do

Buy from companies that treat
workers, animals, and the
environment with respect.

Everyone has a right to healthy
food. Make sure your farmers’
market takes food stamps.

When you go to the supermarket,
choose foods that are in season.
Buy foods that are organic. Know
what’s in your food. Read labels.

Ask your school board to provide
healthy school lunches.

The FDA and USDA are supposed
to protect you and your family. Tell
Congress fund the Food Safety
Modernization Act.

If you say grace, ask for food that
will keep us and the planet
healthy.

You can change the world with
every bite.


The average meal travels 1,500
miles from the farm to the
supermarket. Buy foods that are
grown locally. Shop at farmers’
markets. Plant a garden. (Even a
small one.)
Cook a meal with your family and
eat together.
Reflection Page
 Each paragraph should be 4 sentences minimum.
 Write a paragraph reflecting on things that you learned in
the movie that were new to you and/or influenced the
way you perceive the food you eat and where it comes
from.
 Then, write another paragraph about what individual or
collective actions are you willing to take to improve our
food system, and what would be their impact?
Topics for Research
 Choose one of the topics for research from the wikispace
that you would like to look into, and include that topic at
the end of your portfolio.