Missed Field Trip Make Up Assignment - Corner Stalk Farm

If you missed the trip to Corner Stock - Do a researched reflection (2 paragraphs - one on what you learned, and one on why it is important to you or the earth as a whole in an environmental aspect).  Some research to get you started:

 - Corner Stalk Farm Website
 - CNN Money Write up and Video
 - Discovery News on Freight Farms
 - Freight Farms Website

"Oregon Standoff" Reflection

Write a two paragraph reflection on the Oregon Rancher Standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

In the first paragraph, describe what you know about the standoff, why it is happening, and what is being done.  Include any questions that you can't find an answer to (hint: try googling your questions first - perhaps there is an answer out there?!?)

In the second paragraph, describe what you think about the standoff.  What do you think they should do? How do you think we (or the government) can make that happen? Who do you think is being hurt by this standoff? What do you think it is doing to the Refuge? To the ranchers? To the taxpayers?

BEFORE THIS IS 2ND QUARTER!

If you're doing 3rd Quarter work - do not go below this post!

Food, Inc - "Fast Food to All Food" Reflection

Think about what you saw in today's video.  Write a reflection about the how our food is raised and treated.  Think mostly about the repercussions of the CHANGE in the way food is currently produced:

• If animals should have certain rights, do you think those rights also apply to animals we raise for food, like chickens or pigs? Are there any rights that these farm animals should have? If so, what are they? 
• Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council says in the film, “In a way, we’re not producing chickens, we’re producing food.” What does this statement mean? Do you agree or disagree with it? How might this perspective affect the way that chickens are raised? 
• If we are in consensus that even food animals deserve to have a certain quality of life, who has the responsibility to oversee the treatment of chickens or other food animals? What responsibility do individuals and consumers have? The government? Companies? 
• Think about the cost of food - how would a change in the way we treat animals change the price of what you have for dinner?  Would you still be able to afford chicken? How would this change effect your life?

Food, Inc - "The Supermarket Veil" Reflection

Think about what you saw in today's videos (There were two chapters today!).  Write a reflection about how foods are now engineered and how things should be labeled. In your reflection, you touch upon some of the following ideas:

• What might be the consequences—both positive and negative—of the company owning the genetic information in the seed? 
• How does this situation compare to downloading music from “free” sites?
• Seed cleaning is a tradition among farmers.  Think of a tradition that has been in your family for a long time. What if you could no longer have this tradition because someone now legally claims it as theirs? 
• What might be more effective than warning labels for food? 
• People who have been in the industry are knowledgeable about that industry. What are the pros and cons of them becoming regulators working for the government? 

Food, Inc. - Cornucopia Reflection

Think about what you saw in today's video.  Write a reflection about the pervasiveness of corn in our diets. In your reflection, touch about the following ideas:

• What can people do to be better informed about what is in the foods they eat?
• Do people have the right to know what is in their food?
• Why is it a problem that 90% of our food has corn or soy in it?
• Whose responsibility is it to inform us of what is in our food?

Food Inc - Dollar Menu Reflection

Think about what you saw in today's video.  Write a reflection about how you think subsidizing food is affecting our nation.  In your reflection, be sure to touch upon these ideas:

• Do you believe that healthy EATING a right, a responsibility, or a privilege?
• How does your diet today differ from that of your grandparents when they were your age?
• How healthy do you eat?
• What stands in the way of you and your family eating healthy right now?

"Habitat Fragmentation" Reflection

Write a paragraph describing what habitat fragmentation is.  Include a description of the activity we did in class today and how it represented habitat fragmentation.   Add a paragraph of reflection - some ideas to write about is about how habitat fragmentation is effecting the planet, what (besides humans) can cause habitat fragmentation, and how habitat fragmentation effects you.