OxfordStyle Debate

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Oxford-Style Debate

• MOTION The industrial agriculture enterprise
  does more harm than good to our environment and
  health.
• Agree
• Neutral
• Disagree
• I dont know/No opinion

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MOTION The industrial agriculture enterprise
does more harm than good to our environment and
health.

• FOR the MOTION
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human
  Race by Jared Diamond
• Press Kit for Food, Inc. film
• Chapter 7. The Meal Fast Food from The
  Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Americas Food Crisis and How to Fix It by
  Bryan Walsh
• The Hidden Link by Laura Sayre

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MOTION The industrial agriculture enterprise
does more harm than good to our environment and
health.

• AGAINST the MOTION
• The Case for Big Ag by Michael Grunwald
• The Omnivores Delusion by Blake Hurst
• Monsantos response to Food, Inc.
  http//www.monsanto.com/foodinc/
• Engineering a Sustainable and Sustaining World
  Food Suppy by Dennis Avery

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Oxford-Style Debate

• MOTION The industrial agriculture enterprise
  does more harm than good to our environment and
  health.
• Agree
• Disagree

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• Information
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