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<\/p>\nFood is a requirement for survival, we all need it, and so we eat it. There are those who are very health conscious, and those who simply eat what they can afford. \u00a0At 27 years old, working two jobs\u00a0and trying to complete my degree, I buy what I can afford.\u00a0 Sometimes, this means how much money I can spend and sometimes this is how much time I have.<\/p>\n
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Most of the time I try to plan everything out; prepare a grocery list and even meal prep for my busy weeks, yet in fast paced American there are times that buying food is all a matter of convenience. To some it comes down to what they can fit in their carts that wont break the bank.<\/p>\n
After reading Michael Pollan\u2019s book \u201cIn Defense of Food\u201d I realize that ignorance inside our modern day grocery stores may be the cause of so many unhealthy people.\u00a0 I admit a I buy what I like, especially if it\u2019s cheap, even if that mean white cheddar cheese its. I never really thought twice about the chemicals that have been added, let alone what those ingredients are doing to my body because they taste good. Healthy food is more expensive, and your dollar doesn\u2019t quite go as far. So we sacrifice the quality of our food just to have more.<\/p>\n
Pollan wants for us, as consumers to be more diligent when we shop, really look at what we are buying, to ask ourselves if the products we purchase are legitimate or imitation.\u00a0 He discusses how important it is that we begin to understand our relationship with food. We need to know what we are eating and how it is effecting us health wise.<\/span><\/p>\n Is the problem with our Food System based on the lack of knowledge when it comes to our relationship with food? Can the more we know help us become a more health conscious community of consumers? I believe it\u2019s possible, more people just need to read Pollan\u2019s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Food is a requirement for survival, we all need it, and so we eat it. There are those who are very health conscious, and those who simply eat what they can afford. \u00a0At 27 years old, working two jobs\u00a0and trying to complete my degree, I buy what I can afford.\u00a0 Sometimes, this means how much money I can spend and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-economics","category-food-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}