{"id":222,"date":"2018-04-15T01:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=222"},"modified":"2018-04-15T01:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T01:28:24","slug":"but-what-about-the-american-dream-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/but-what-about-the-american-dream-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"But What About The American Dream For Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a college student, myself and many others are always lacking something.\u00a0 Time, energy, money, you name it.\u00a0 Despite this, according to the American Dream we are doing everything we should be doing.\u00a0 Our education is leading us well on our way to fulfilling that happy dream of living in a white picket fenced house with a perfect spouse (and dog) and six-figure job, but are we really doing that<\/em> well?<\/p>\n

While I knew our American diet was FAR from healthy, Michael Pollan\u2019s In Defense of Food <\/em>points out even further how not so great the American food system is.\u00a0 We lean a lot on nutritionism, where the nutrients of food is seen as more important than the food itself, resulting in a ridiculously wide range of processed foods.\u00a0 We modify these antioxidants and those vitamins rather than just eating the food that is present and we end up with insanely cheap meals in a box.<\/p>\n

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As previously stated, college students are almost always short on money (amongst other things) so instead of going to our local farmers market to grab fresh fruits and vegetables we are heading to QFC to get things like boxed Mac N Cheese.\u00a0 Not only is this meal cheap and within our budgets but it also takes very little time and energy to make.\u00a0 Cooking is very much a privilege.\u00a0 To really cook a meal means that you have not only time but also money.<\/p>\n

But what if we never make it to that point?\u00a0 To be able to afford the American Dream we all have to work a full-time job.\u00a0 Working a full-time job is exhausting, so where are we supposed to find the time and effort to cook?\u00a0 On top of this all, living in Seattle is expensive too so there is also a chance that you still <\/em>won\u2019t be able to afford to eat fruits and veggies all day…So this begs the question, how is food and healthy eating supposed to play into this American Dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a college student, myself and many others are always lacking something.\u00a0 Time, energy, money, you name it.\u00a0 Despite this, according to the American Dream we are doing everything we should be doing.\u00a0 Our education is leading us well on our way to fulfilling that happy dream of living in a white picket fenced house with a perfect spouse (and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrialized-food","category-public-health","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}