The piece of our group project that I believe was most essential to our learning was our team’s willingness and ability to communicate with one another. While this strength may obviously be conducive to the success of any group work, I began to consider how naturally impossible and frustrating it is to tackle any environmental cause when the relevant relationships… Read more »
Walking into class with an empty stomach was an interesting practice for me because I try to regularly fast and meditate on my relationship with food and how this affects my relationship with myself and with others. However, contemplating in class, in a mass group of individuals, struck me as a unique experience in that l did not even know… Read more »
In his mission to clarify the ideology of nutritionism, Michael Pollan asserts that food is simply not just the sum of its parts, a point that is critical to gaining understanding of the effects of food on human life. “[nutritionist ideology] has trouble discerning qualitative distinctions among foods” (Pollan 31). Because so much of our food comes from living plants… Read more »