Food Activism

2. Earl Butz, the former US Secretary of Agriculture, once famously stated that before the United States could consider this kind of farming, it would have to decide which 50 -60 million Americans would be chosen to starve; many studies later proved his statement incorrect.
5. Arnold Schwarzenegger played the lead in this 1984 film; the term also refers to a genetic modification in which food crops yield sterile seeds.
9. The active ingredient in Roundup brand pesticide, recently found in startling quantities in breakfast cereals.
11. The agricultural practice of raising a single species in a field at a time; consistently criticized when applied to soy or corn farming for its unsustainability.
14. _____ Foods; sometimes referred to as Whole Pay check.
16. The farming of red palm oil is criticized for displacing these primates from their natural habitat.
18. The implementation of this trade agreement led to Mexico’s market being flooded with subsidized corn originating from the United States, crushing family farms and jeopardizing the country’s food security.
20. Monsanto was purchased by this German multinational corporation in 2016, resulting in the rise of a near monopoly in the agricultural industry.

1. A human diet that excludes all animal products.
3. A human diet that excludes all plant products.
4. Farm to _____ is a recent movement within independent restaurants.
6. An irreversible evolutionary occurrence in species that correlates with the widespread destruction of habitat; the process is accelerating today.
7. _____ wise; our sustainable seafood labeling system
8. This kind of salmon, raised in open net pens, is widely considered unsustainable.
10. A food ______ refers to an urban area in which it is difficult to buy quality, fresh food; often associated with low income neighbourhoods and high levels of obesity.
12. This popular nut is used in the production of “milk” alternatives; requires extensive irrigation and recently faced severe drought conditions in California that killed entire orchards.
13. These lifesaving drugs can stop an infection in humans, but are often misused in animal agriculture as “growth accelerators”.
15. This aquifer, the largest body of fresh water on planet Earth, stretching from South Dakota to Texas, is being rapidly depleted by industrial agriculture.
17. The political movement that arose in Rome to protest the incursion of American fast food into the city, specifically the proposed construction of a McDonald’s at the Spanish Steps.
19. The introduction of neonicotinoids, a new class of pesticides, correlates closely with colony collapse disorder in the insect family apidae, commonly known as ____.