Our group was interested in non-food agriculture. Jokingly, we talked about what it would like if we were to focus on marijuana. As our conversation continued, we wanted to look at hemp. One of our group members had done past research with hemp and was familiar with the legal issues that it entails, so she really convinced us that there… Read more »
This wasn’t a contemplative practice done in class, but an outside self-reflection after one of the lessons. But I wanted to use the self-reflectivity of the practice to look at how I feel towards other things we have learned. I have never attached race to food. It never made sense. Why would you associate being a certain race with a… Read more »
As a young adult woman in a time heightened by social media popularity and the craze of food science, I—like many young women—are at a millennial crossroad, confused and perplexed by the need to look a certain way to achieve maximum “likes” while also drowning in a sea of supposed scientific facts that influence how I can have a body… Read more »