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What did you eat yesterday or today? From where did you get your water? Where did your food come from?
Inquiry Chart
What do you know about food and water? What do you want to know more about/learn?
Guiding Questions
What do we mean by food? Where does your food and water come from? How do we produce our food and what do we eat? How do we get our water? To whom does it belong? So why does any of this matter?
Why?
FirstWATER
Water
What rights do you have to water? How is water necessary for you to drinkbut how else is it used in production? Water in industrialized agriculture and other production cycles Do we have enough?
USGS
Source: UNEP
How did you get your water today? This week? Who gave it you?
What do you agree or disagree with about the film? What surprised you and why? What further information would you need to agree with its argument or to challenge it?
SecondFOOD
Food
What do we mean by food? Political, economic, environmental issues Is access to food a right? How does food get to your plate? Consumption levels? Local vs. globalized Agrochemical vs. organic Industrial vs. small scale Genetically modified foods
Australia
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
Guatemala
India
United States
Mexico
Mali
Turkey
What key differences and similarities did you notice? What questions did it arise? What surprised you? What didnt surprise you? What assumptions did it challenge or confirm?
Source: CDC
Tradeoffs
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/mexico_2008/
Food Policy
What ended up on your plate: How was it grown? How was it harvested? How was it processed? How was it shipped/transported? How was it prepared?
Would you deny starving people food because it is a frankenfood? If a corporation creates a food, do they own it? Do they own the genetic material?