I’ve always considered Immigrant rights and food security as two separate issues but after this project, I came to realize that the two are intertwined. At first, my group set out to examine food sovereignty in the US and our local UW community. We found a connection between immigrant farmworkers and their contribution to our own food supply. A report… Read more »
Chocolate is a rich, tasty indulgence that I perceived to be universal. However, this week I learned that chocolate is not universal, it is a luxury and surprisingly the very people extracting the raw cacao have not been given access. In lecture 7, we watched a video of cacao farmers in the Ivory Coast that has never tasted chocolate. In… Read more »
In the Defense of Food, Michael Pollan mentions a study about a group of Aborigines in 1982 that spent seven weeks eating like hunter-gatherers. Before the study, they had been eating western food for years and had contracted type two diabetes. During the seven weeks, they ate food such as birds, plants, shellfish, yams, turtles, seafood, and figs. After the… Read more »