Need to update this with Viewing Guide for “Wasted” . Please answer the following questions after watching the CNBC “Supermarket Shock” documentary and the Electrolux “Ten Short Stories on Food Waste”.
Food Systems Viewing Guide Questions
Supermarket Shock
- We learned from this week’s lecture that the food system includes everything and everybody involved in creating food, the journey from farm to table, post production consumption, and waste products. After watching the CNBC Supermarket Shock documentary, please describe what happened to one player or piece of the food system and how it affected at least three or more others in the food system
- Why did grocery stores run out of certain products, e.g., toilet paper, cleaning products, milk, eggs, meat, etc.
- What did manufacturers have to do to meet demands for products? (Give one specific example from the documentary.)
- What happened to the meat processing plants? How did that affect the food chain? Farmers? Consumers
- How did food packaging change for some products?
- Who were some of the “winners” (who benefited?) in the Food Chain during the COVID crisis?
- Did you, your friends, or your family panic buy? If so, why? Describe what you bought.
Ten Stories about Food Waste
- You learned from watching this documentary and others that we waste about one-third of the food we produce. List three or more places in the food chain, where we waste food.
- From this documentary, what are three or more things you as a consumer/citizen of a larger ecosystem can do to help stop the waste?
- Discuss one “story” from the documentary that inspired you. Why did it inspire you?
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