Your roommate is hungry and wants to know what's for dinner. You have decided to try and reduce your food waste, so you suggest:
a. eating out at a vegetarian restaurant.
b. making sandwiches with the bread, spinach, and turkey you bought a few days ago.
c. going to the store to buy something different than you had yesterday, for dietary variety.
d. peeling the potatoes before cooking them.
e. walking to the store to see what is on sale at a discount today.
Q. 2In order to be an environmentally conscious shopper you would:
a. drive to the grocery store three times per week.
b. stock up on disposable plates and cups.
c. consume more plant foods than animal products.
d. eat fish of any species, large or small.
e. use plastic bags.
Q. 3U.S. food waste:
a. accounts for about half as much municipal waste as plastics.
b. generates greenhouse gases.
c. wastes about 5 of fresh water used.
d. represents about 18 of total calories produced per capita.
e. does not contribute to climate change.
Q. 4What is one of the main causes for famine in the world today?
a. inadequate land to grow crops on
b. pest infestation of growing crops leading to failed growth
c. fighting among warring factions in countries where one faction is in power
d. inadequate aid from international aid organizations
e. an insufficient number of farmers who produce edible crops
Q. 5By empowering women in countries with high poverty levels, we can improve the health status of the family because:
a. more women have received education than men.
b. malnourished women give birth to low-birthweight infants.
c. healthy women can bear more children to farm the land and grow food.
d. most of these societies value women more highly than men.
e. women and children are usually better off financially than men.
Q. 6The combination of hunger and poverty is hard for people to overcome in many poor countries because:
a. there is not enough available land for them to buy to grow more food.
b. there are not enough markets for them to go purchase foods from.
c. not enough schools are available for the children to attend.
d. hunger prevents them from working harder to improve their economic status.
e. they don't have access to the medications needed to treat malnutrition.
Q. 7Your service organization wants to volunteer for a local food pantry. What would be one of the activities that they could participate in?
a. Distribute recovered foods to federal food assistance programs.
b. Organize and fill emergency food boxes for those in need.
c. Cook and serve meals at a local soup kitchen using food pantry foods.
d. Encourage farmers' markets to sell their goods to the food pantry.
e. Serve breakfast in low-income children in schools.
Q. 8The U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has improved the nutritional status of families by:
a. providing temporary short-term assistance to adults in need.
b. giving eligible families debit cards with which to purchase foods.
c. providing cooked meals to families in need.
d. giving families bulk surplus foods.
e. finding jobs for unemployed parents.
Q. 9The reasons we see obesity combined with undernutrition in the poor include all of the following except:
a. foods that are available to and affordable for these individuals are often high in calories.
b. poor families often live in food deserts.
c. food programs may be providing too much food to families in poverty.
d. certain nutritious foods cost more than less nutritious choices.
e. most people choose foods primarily on taste and preference.
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