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Seeds are People Too!

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Regarding the seed and meat industry and our contemplative practice for module 9.  I thought a lot about how I feel about the choices I make when I eat and why I chose to make them.  Do I even care, or do I choose what to eat because I like it?  Thinking about this module and then doing the contemplative… Read more »

Is Whole Food’s Really Whole??

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As I went to get breakfast the other morning from the hot bar at Whole Foods I noticed something that I never took notice too before.  The scrambled eggs have citric acid listed in the ingredients.  I had just read Amanda Littles essay, “Cooking Oil: How Fossil Fuels Feed the World (and Energy Shortages Starve it).”  I was still trying… Read more »

Seattle Could Learn a Thing or Two from India

I was shocked to learn about the intricate systems of rainwater harvesting in India.  Not only that, but how long they have been place, some of the for hundreds of years.  Anupam Mishra mentions in his TED talk titled The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting that the reasons these systems have been in place for so long, in a place… Read more »

The Diary of a Chocolate Snob

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By the third week of class I felt that I had gotten more out of the contemplative exercise than I had previously. I truly gained some insight into myself that was different than the weeks before.  It was different because I didn’t want to acknowledge it.  Coincidentally I worked for an German Chocolatier and when I was in high school.  Before… Read more »

I Think I Need a Garden!

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What is the real cost of cheap food?  In Michael Carolan’s book, The Real Cost of Cheap Food, he tries to answer this question by explaining chapter by chapter what we lose when we consume “cheap” food (anything mass produced and sold as affordable to the working class.)  Whether a country that produces cheap food or a human who consumes… Read more »

Sugar Addicts

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In Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food, he makes a case for why we should get back to eating like our great-great grandparents.  The trendiness that has overcome the food industry has made us eat food that isn’t actually good for us just convenient for the food marketers and the journalists to promote.  One of the fads that he… Read more »