Feb 4-10th. 2013
1.What's the nitrogen cycle?P33
2.Why they work in secret and seldom cooperate with journalist?P43.
3.Why the herbicide was banned in Europe but widely used in the US?P44
4.What does the "bunkbroeken " mean?P53
5.Explain "but a corn diet causes a condition that keeps the gas from escaping".
Feb11-19th.2013
1.What did the meaning George Nylor tell micheal pollan about"There is money to be made in food,unless you are trying to grow it."?P72
2.Why makes poisoning rats so difficult?
3.Explain "the calories end up being stored away in fat cells in our body."p78
4.Why the health problems of eating too much hit poor people hardest.P83
5.Why the roots of cassava contain the poison cyanide can keep most animals from eating them?p90
Feb19-24th.2013
1.Why it means that billions of animals are doomed to live out their lives on factory farms?p105
2.Explain" Of all the species that have adapted to thrive in a world dominated by humans,surely no other has done better than Zeamays."p106
3.What does the meaning of " you do not have to get a dozen other peple to agree on what to buy"?p114
4.Why did Kahn speak without regret about the compromises he's made along the path from organic farmer to agribusiness executive?p116
5.What does the meaning of "This is just lunch for most people."?p116
Feb25th-Mar4th.2013
1.Explain"There's been no study to show what it does to children."p134
2.Explain"The food in our organic meal had floated to us on a sea of petroleum just as surely as the corn-based meal we'd had from McDonald's."p138
3.Explain"I don't believe it's sustainable-or'organic,'if you will-to FedEx meat all around the country."p138
4.Explain"Shipping food thousand of miles and burning up fossil fuels went against his whole philosophy as a farmer.p138
5.Explain"It is our name for the whole collection of plants that grow together in a pasture or meadow."p146
Mar5th-Mar10th 2013
1.Explain"since the cattle would spread their waste exactly where it would do the most good."p155
2.Explain"When cattle eat the leaves of a grass,the plant will kill off some of its roots,the balance itself out."p156
3.Why Joel said"I'm just the orchestra conductor, making sure everybody's in the right place at the right time."?p165
4.Explain"This farm is more like an organism than a machine,and like any organism it has its proper scale.A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well."
5.Explain"This layer cake of manure,woodchips,and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle."
Mar11th-17th 2013
1.Explain"Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?".P183
2.Explain"I asked Joel if he believed the industrial food chain would ever be replaced by a local food system."p192
3.Explain"it's not eating meat so much as eating corn-fed meat that is bad for us.p199
4.What' s meaning of "the airholes the calms made?"p205
5.Explain" It's only in the health of its hunter-gather ancesters."p207
1.What's the nitrogen cycle?P33
2.Why they work in secret and seldom cooperate with journalist?P43.
3.Why the herbicide was banned in Europe but widely used in the US?P44
4.What does the "bunkbroeken " mean?P53
5.Explain "but a corn diet causes a condition that keeps the gas from escaping".
Feb11-19th.2013
1.What did the meaning George Nylor tell micheal pollan about"There is money to be made in food,unless you are trying to grow it."?P72
2.Why makes poisoning rats so difficult?
3.Explain "the calories end up being stored away in fat cells in our body."p78
4.Why the health problems of eating too much hit poor people hardest.P83
5.Why the roots of cassava contain the poison cyanide can keep most animals from eating them?p90
Feb19-24th.2013
1.Why it means that billions of animals are doomed to live out their lives on factory farms?p105
2.Explain" Of all the species that have adapted to thrive in a world dominated by humans,surely no other has done better than Zeamays."p106
3.What does the meaning of " you do not have to get a dozen other peple to agree on what to buy"?p114
4.Why did Kahn speak without regret about the compromises he's made along the path from organic farmer to agribusiness executive?p116
5.What does the meaning of "This is just lunch for most people."?p116
Feb25th-Mar4th.2013
1.Explain"There's been no study to show what it does to children."p134
2.Explain"The food in our organic meal had floated to us on a sea of petroleum just as surely as the corn-based meal we'd had from McDonald's."p138
3.Explain"I don't believe it's sustainable-or'organic,'if you will-to FedEx meat all around the country."p138
4.Explain"Shipping food thousand of miles and burning up fossil fuels went against his whole philosophy as a farmer.p138
5.Explain"It is our name for the whole collection of plants that grow together in a pasture or meadow."p146
Mar5th-Mar10th 2013
1.Explain"since the cattle would spread their waste exactly where it would do the most good."p155
2.Explain"When cattle eat the leaves of a grass,the plant will kill off some of its roots,the balance itself out."p156
3.Why Joel said"I'm just the orchestra conductor, making sure everybody's in the right place at the right time."?p165
4.Explain"This farm is more like an organism than a machine,and like any organism it has its proper scale.A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well."
5.Explain"This layer cake of manure,woodchips,and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle."
Mar11th-17th 2013
1.Explain"Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?".P183
2.Explain"I asked Joel if he believed the industrial food chain would ever be replaced by a local food system."p192
3.Explain"it's not eating meat so much as eating corn-fed meat that is bad for us.p199
4.What' s meaning of "the airholes the calms made?"p205
5.Explain" It's only in the health of its hunter-gather ancesters."p207
Mar18-22th 2013
1.Explain"even franks in the ballpark."p219
2.Explain"It is no accident that the non-union workers in these factories receive little more condideration than the animals."p212
3.Explain"It was never wriiten down or spoken,but it was a deal nonetheless."p223
4.Explain"Given the nature of hunting, not to metion me,i understood this as less a prediction than a prayer."P235
5.Explain the double-rail cattle slaughter system.p227
Mar23th-Apr2nd 2013
1.Explain"It seems we need to learn this information in person,from another human being."p251
2.Explain"their job is to break the dead down into food for the living."p253
3.Explain the last paragraph in page 252.
4.Explain"It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet."p275
5.Explain"We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry,and that what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world."
April3-5th 2003
1.Explain"you didn't baste it ,did you?"
2.Explain"But taht's if a person makes a mistake, and you yourself said a moment ago taht my sewing was."
3.Why does the younger daughter have to take care her mother until her dead?
4..Why Tita can not married?
5.Can Tita allow Pedro marry with her sister?
April 8-14
1.Why mama Elena let Tita make her sister's wedding cake?
2.Does have a chicken in the egg?
3.Why Tita believe pedro 's talking?
4.Who put intoxication in the cake?
5.How does nacha die?
April15-22
1.How could Tita feed to baby,she is unmarried?
2.Explain "She just pretended that each quail had a soft-boiled egg stuck in its crop?"
3.Why Gertrudis got so hot in her body?
4.Why Tita melted away her pains when she held Pedro's son?
5.Explain why Chencha likes talk about her ridicular stories?
April23-28th, 2013
1.Explain" Then she heard a tiny sound: a little newborn pigeon had been spared from the massacre."
2.Why the milk in Tita 's breast had dried up?
3.Explain"let me tell you something i've never told a soul."
4.Explain page 114 the third paragaph.
5.Why Tita wrote the words :'Because i don't want to?"
1.Explain"even franks in the ballpark."p219
2.Explain"It is no accident that the non-union workers in these factories receive little more condideration than the animals."p212
3.Explain"It was never wriiten down or spoken,but it was a deal nonetheless."p223
4.Explain"Given the nature of hunting, not to metion me,i understood this as less a prediction than a prayer."P235
5.Explain the double-rail cattle slaughter system.p227
Mar23th-Apr2nd 2013
1.Explain"It seems we need to learn this information in person,from another human being."p251
2.Explain"their job is to break the dead down into food for the living."p253
3.Explain the last paragraph in page 252.
4.Explain"It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet."p275
5.Explain"We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry,and that what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world."
April3-5th 2003
1.Explain"you didn't baste it ,did you?"
2.Explain"But taht's if a person makes a mistake, and you yourself said a moment ago taht my sewing was."
3.Why does the younger daughter have to take care her mother until her dead?
4..Why Tita can not married?
5.Can Tita allow Pedro marry with her sister?
April 8-14
1.Why mama Elena let Tita make her sister's wedding cake?
2.Does have a chicken in the egg?
3.Why Tita believe pedro 's talking?
4.Who put intoxication in the cake?
5.How does nacha die?
April15-22
1.How could Tita feed to baby,she is unmarried?
2.Explain "She just pretended that each quail had a soft-boiled egg stuck in its crop?"
3.Why Gertrudis got so hot in her body?
4.Why Tita melted away her pains when she held Pedro's son?
5.Explain why Chencha likes talk about her ridicular stories?
April23-28th, 2013
1.Explain" Then she heard a tiny sound: a little newborn pigeon had been spared from the massacre."
2.Why the milk in Tita 's breast had dried up?
3.Explain"let me tell you something i've never told a soul."
4.Explain page 114 the third paragaph.
5.Why Tita wrote the words :'Because i don't want to?"
April29-May6th,2013
1.Explain"They end up in the filthy gutter of a fast life."
2.What does"a gringo one to boot"mean?
3.Explain"leaving her behind all adrift."
4.Does Tita like Dr Browns?
5.Will Tita and Predro go togather?
1.Explain"They end up in the filthy gutter of a fast life."
2.What does"a gringo one to boot"mean?
3.Explain"leaving her behind all adrift."
4.Does Tita like Dr Browns?
5.Will Tita and Predro go togather?
May 7-13th,2013
1.Why Pulque got tired of listening Gertrudise?
2.Does Tita real pregnant?
3.Why Juan says ,"he couldn't forgive Gertrudise for having returned to her old ways?"
4.Explain"she had to make a supreme effort not to shout at her sister that it was the sickest idea she had heard in her life."
5.Explain"Seeds didn't have that kind of problem, they didn't have a mother to be afraid of or a fear of those who would judge them."
May14-20,2013
1.What does "with the state of Pedro's health "mean?
2.Explain "If you had had the tiniest scrap of pride, you would have put him out of your mind forever."
3.Explain"At thirty-nine she was still as sharp and fresh as a cucumber that had just been cut.'
4.What causes Predo die?
5.Why Tita put the candles in her mouth?
1.Why Pulque got tired of listening Gertrudise?
2.Does Tita real pregnant?
3.Why Juan says ,"he couldn't forgive Gertrudise for having returned to her old ways?"
4.Explain"she had to make a supreme effort not to shout at her sister that it was the sickest idea she had heard in her life."
5.Explain"Seeds didn't have that kind of problem, they didn't have a mother to be afraid of or a fear of those who would judge them."
May14-20,2013
1.What does "with the state of Pedro's health "mean?
2.Explain "If you had had the tiniest scrap of pride, you would have put him out of your mind forever."
3.Explain"At thirty-nine she was still as sharp and fresh as a cucumber that had just been cut.'
4.What causes Predo die?
5.Why Tita put the candles in her mouth?