DISCUSSION GUIDE - Center for Ecoliteracy

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O b j ectives

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N ational S tandards C orrelations

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A bout S ocratic D iscussions

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Fast Food to All Food

Focus Question: Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life?

2 A Cornucopia of Choices

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Focus Question: Do people have the right to know what is in their food?

3 Unintended Consequences

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Focus Question: Who is responsible for keeping our food safe?

4 The Dollar Menu

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Focus Question: Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone?

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5 In the Grass

Focus Question: When deciding what to eat, how much should we consider the

workers who pick, process, and transport it?

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6 Hidden Costs

Focus Question: Does it matter to you which food companies produce your food?

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7 From Seed to the Supermarket

Focus Question: Should companies be able to own the DNA contained in plant

seeds?

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8 The Veil

Focus Question: Should a company have the power to decide what information to

give consumers about the food it produces?

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Shocks to the System

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Focus Question: What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to

improve our food system, and what would be their impact?

things you can do

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vocabulary

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resources

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