The group action project this quarter is perhaps one of the most salient learning experiences I’ve had at UW. And this is most likely because, by most standards of effective collection action, we failed. The movie I found, “We Feed the World,” is a film that so effectively summed up many of the topics we discussed in class that many… Read more »
Author Archives: Jack Robert Mcgivern
Thinking About Raisins
The use of contemplative practices in a class that focuses on a subject so expansive and with so many interlocking parts that is the global food system at first seemed to me to be a waste of time. To some extent I’m still not convinced by it, but the exercise we did with the raisin was at least an interesting… Read more »
We Cannot Abandon the System, But We Must Fix It
Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” did a great deal for me in explaining my misconceptions on diet and Nutritionism, but I felt it stopped short of coming up with any solutions that can have any widespread change. The article by Julie Guthman echoes these sentiments somewhat. Yes, it is important to strive the best we can to eat foods… Read more »