Agribusiness Impact and Water Quality

The video challenges the myth that agribusiness benefits communities, highlighting issues like poor water quality at schools and wealth disparity, particularly focusing on the Resnicks. It underscores the irony of the California aqueduct providing cheap water to farms while local communities suffer. The systemic nature of these issues is emphasized, showing that the model prioritizes profit over community welfare.

What is the common belief about the impact of agribusinesses on communities?

• They have no impact on communities.

• They improve community welfare.

• They only benefit the environment.

• They harm community welfare.

How do the children describe the water at their school?

• It tastes sweet.

• It tastes like blood.

• It tastes like sugar.

• It tastes like milk.

What is ironic about the Resnicks' wealth?

• Their workers have access to clean water.

• They donate all their wealth to charity.

• They are wealthy while their workers lack clean water.

• They are not on the Forbes list.

What does the California aqueduct deliver to Paramount Farming?

• Expensive bottled water.

• Polluted river water.

• High quality, subsidized rainwater.

• Water from the ocean.

What is the primary goal of the agribusiness model according to the narrator?

• To make money.

• To improve education.

• To treat people well.

• To build strong communities.