You think you know, but you have no idea

by Ellen Slattery, Posted Jun 11th 2008 @ 5:00PM

By now, you've probably stopped reading articles about the food crisis by now. You probably read a few at first, and a few turned to two a week, at best. Now your eyes skim by as journalists continue to cover this problem that's plaguing people around the world. But as long as it doesn't directly affect you (except where prices are concerned), who cares, right?

For a pared-down, concise, but still informative look at what you do (but mostly what you don't) know about the food crisis, check out National Geographic's quiz, What's up with the food crisis?

The quiz discloses the answers to such questions as "does buying U.S.-grown rice deprive struggling economies of income?" and "which two countries are having the greatest effect on the global grain market?"

And if you're not completely depressed by the results to the food crisis quiz, see how much you know about the safety of your produce.

Filed Under: On the Blogs, Food News
Tags: features, food crisis, FoodCrisis, global market, GlobalMarket, grain, produce, quiz, rice, test

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6-11-2008 @9:41PM Kearns said... Oddly I did very well on the quiz, so I guess I do know.

The depressing thing was the crappy design of their survey tool. What horible horrible horrrible design.
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6-12-2008 @1:30AM Adam Fields said... Having scored 100%, I'll say you don't give your readers enough credit.

Also, their answer to the "does buying U.S.-grown rice deprive struggling economies of income" was extremely evasive. The fact that buying US grown rice supports farmers in the Us doesn't mean that not buying foreign rice doesn't take money away from them.
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