Author Archives: Billy Stafford

Blog Post 2: Contemplative Practice Contemplative practices have been integral part of the learning experience for Political Ecology of the World Food System. Making students engage in these practices has proven to be a unique teaching style, and in a course that is so ecologically integrative, these techniques have allowed the cohort to both understand the system better, and to… Read more »

Pollan’s book, while providing very tangible and well researched explanations about the shift in dominant food paradigms and practices across the world, is fundamentally flawed in one way: its applicability. Specifically, In Defence of Food, in my opinion, has blind spots at the intersection of nutritionism and class/economic status, and is subsequently racially flawed also. In Part III of the… Read more »