SOC808 Sociology of Food and Eating
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
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When was the first food revolution? - ANSWER ✓ 15,000-5,000 BC
What is distancing? - ANSWER ✓ distance that food travels and our little
knowledge about food (physical and mental)
How many people are currently malnourished? - ANSWER ✓ 800 million
What is food security? - ANSWER ✓ social, physical, and financial access to
healthy and culturally appropriate food
How many people are over-nourished? - ANSWER ✓ 2 billion
What is NOT an example of neoliberalism? - ANSWER ✓ promotion of social
welfare programs
What ARE examples of neoliberalism? - ANSWER ✓ tax cuts for businesses,
cutting tariffs/trade barriers, privatizing health care
It is estimated that by 2050, the global population will reach... - ANSWER ✓ 9
billion people
what crop constitutes most of the crops that have been genetically modified? -
ANSWER ✓ soy
What institution provides loans to only developing countries? - ANSWER ✓
World Bank (attaches unreasonable conditions to loans)
, By what percentage will Africa have to increase its food production to feed its
people in 2050? - ANSWER ✓ 300%
What did Malthus get correct when making his prediction about the global
population? - ANSWER ✓ increase in popualation
When was the second food revolution? - ANSWER ✓ WWII-present
How much is the Canadian organic market worth? - ANSWER ✓ 4 billion
What country experienced the Green revolution first, and what year? - ANSWER
✓ Mexico, 1945
What is NOT a result of the green revolution? - ANSWER ✓ Increase in
diversified diets
What are results of the green revolution? - ANSWER ✓ increase of water use for
irrigation, increased pesticides, increased caloric intake, reduction of famine
what percentage of sprayed pesticides actually hits the target organism? -
ANSWER ✓ less than 1%
What is an example of resisting the complex food supply chain? - ANSWER ✓
fair trade
What continent is targeted for Green Revolution 2.0? - ANSWER ✓ Africa
Who was the group to first articulate "food sovereignty?" - ANSWER ✓ La Via
Campesina
Who are the biggest combative regions when it comes to trade? - ANSWER ✓
Both the EU and the US
What product was first to be fairly traded? - ANSWER ✓ Coffee, then bananas
What are food deserts? - ANSWER ✓ Geographic areas of relative exclusion
where people face barriers to accessing healthy foods
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS||UPDATED 2026/2027
SYLLABUS||100% GUARANTEED
PASS||<<NEWEST VERSION>>
When was the first food revolution? - ANSWER ✓ 15,000-5,000 BC
What is distancing? - ANSWER ✓ distance that food travels and our little
knowledge about food (physical and mental)
How many people are currently malnourished? - ANSWER ✓ 800 million
What is food security? - ANSWER ✓ social, physical, and financial access to
healthy and culturally appropriate food
How many people are over-nourished? - ANSWER ✓ 2 billion
What is NOT an example of neoliberalism? - ANSWER ✓ promotion of social
welfare programs
What ARE examples of neoliberalism? - ANSWER ✓ tax cuts for businesses,
cutting tariffs/trade barriers, privatizing health care
It is estimated that by 2050, the global population will reach... - ANSWER ✓ 9
billion people
what crop constitutes most of the crops that have been genetically modified? -
ANSWER ✓ soy
What institution provides loans to only developing countries? - ANSWER ✓
World Bank (attaches unreasonable conditions to loans)
, By what percentage will Africa have to increase its food production to feed its
people in 2050? - ANSWER ✓ 300%
What did Malthus get correct when making his prediction about the global
population? - ANSWER ✓ increase in popualation
When was the second food revolution? - ANSWER ✓ WWII-present
How much is the Canadian organic market worth? - ANSWER ✓ 4 billion
What country experienced the Green revolution first, and what year? - ANSWER
✓ Mexico, 1945
What is NOT a result of the green revolution? - ANSWER ✓ Increase in
diversified diets
What are results of the green revolution? - ANSWER ✓ increase of water use for
irrigation, increased pesticides, increased caloric intake, reduction of famine
what percentage of sprayed pesticides actually hits the target organism? -
ANSWER ✓ less than 1%
What is an example of resisting the complex food supply chain? - ANSWER ✓
fair trade
What continent is targeted for Green Revolution 2.0? - ANSWER ✓ Africa
Who was the group to first articulate "food sovereignty?" - ANSWER ✓ La Via
Campesina
Who are the biggest combative regions when it comes to trade? - ANSWER ✓
Both the EU and the US
What product was first to be fairly traded? - ANSWER ✓ Coffee, then bananas
What are food deserts? - ANSWER ✓ Geographic areas of relative exclusion
where people face barriers to accessing healthy foods
