Source: tresyk – Flickr Collective action is hard! That is the main takeaway from my group project. We choose to screen a movie in order to bring awareness of unfair trade practices. We could never find times to meet as we were all busy college students who had jobs. That inhibited creating a healthy group mind. For example, Iris and… Read more »
Source: Giulian Frisoni Chocolate, luxurious and decadent, is enjoyed by individuals over global. Our class had the opportunity to taste what makes chocolate into chocolate: the raw cacao. By eating both chocolate and cacao we were able to contemplate global inequities in the world’s food system. While chocolate is rich, cacao is bitter. I savored the cacao, I could taste… Read more »
When did eating become so difficult? There is a dizzying amount of conflicting information about food. The result is a multitude diets like: keto, gluten-free, low-fat, paleo, high-protein and liquid to name a few. Pollan attempts to cut through the confusion with his book In Defense of Food. Pollon exhorts a simple answer to my food question “Eat food. Not… Read more »