The one contemplative practice that sat with me the longest was the raisin practice that we did. During class, we watched a video all about raisins; how they are made, what processes they go to, and the benefits of eating raisins. I never actually took the time like we did in class to learn about one food, and I certainly never took the time I did with the food physically before ingesting it. I think this practice really helped with my understanding of industrialized food, and what the United States (Not only the United States, but mainly) is doing to their food chemically to produce something bigger than it’s supposed to be, or producing more of something than there is suppose to be. This practice also provoked an interesting thought for me about the world and that’s that there is a finite number of resources on our planet, but our population keeps growing and growing at an exponential rate. What if we didn’t chemically alternate our foods the way we do now, would we be using up our resources at a faster rate than we already are? In a way, I’m asking if it is necessary for industrial agriculture, as much as we wanna eat healthy and all organic, according to nutritionism. There are a finite amount of raisins, just as everything else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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