QUIZ 2.

• Position: Beef industry and fast food

Use with NATIONAL, pages 12-17, and History, pages 18-19

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the answer that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. What is the title of author Eric Schlosser's new book about the fast-food industry? (a) Supersized America; (b) Food Fight; (c) Fast Food Nation; (d) Want Fat With That?

2. About how many Americans experience food-related illness each year? (a) less than 5 percent; (b) more than 5 percent, but less than 10 percent; (c) more than 10 percent, but less than 25 percent; (d) more than 25 percent.

3. The deadly microbe E. coli contaminates beef when (a) cows eat garbage; (b) cows develop tuberculosis; (c) animal feces are spilled on it; (d) beef is not stored below 30 [degrees] F.

4. Which beef-borne disease can kill humans? (a) mad cow disease; (b) foot-and-mouth disease; (c) mange; (d) cowlick.

5. Critics of the U.S. meat industry are concerned about the fact that current regulations allow cattle to be fed (a) raw sewage; (b) burned vegetation; (c) saturated fats; (d) dead horses, pigs, and poultry.

6. Critics say increasing fast-food serving sizes help feed America's growing obesity problem. One example: Today's serving of Super Size Fries at McDonald's is much larger than the large-size serving of a generation ago. How much larger? (a) 25 percent; (b) 75 percent; (c) 100 percent; (d) 300 percent.

7. Critics of the burgers-and-fries diet say it lacks a key nutrient that teens need to help strengthen their developing bones. What is this key nutrient? (a) calcium; (b) mineral oil; (c) selenium; (d) zinc.

   FILL IN THE BLANK: Write the correct answer on the line provided.

8. Federal regulations allow ground beef to contain up -- to percent fat.

9. American children get about one-quarter of their -- servings from potato chips or french fries.

10. Congress initially refused to regulate the meat-packing industry because of pressure from --.

11. In 1906, Congress passed the -- Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, establishing federal regulations governing the operations of food and drug producers.

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

12. Make one argument supporting and one argument opposing the 1,200 percent markup on fast-food soda.

13. Federal laws allow processed food labels to avoid mentioning items that can cause allergic reactions--such as peanuts--that may accidentally be mixed with food during processing. What do you think accounts for this loophole in government regulations?

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