Wow I can't believe we're already on week 5& 6 review! Feels just like yesterday when we were babies at this blogging thing. Now I feel like we're well on our way to becoming professional bloggers ;)
Week 5
A few things we did in week 5 were reading Chapter 15: Feeding the World, completed another Eye Opener called CSIP and watched a film, "Diet for a New America" for which I wrote my first review on. Feeding the World was quite an interseting chapter that was eye opening and even a little shocking to me. It focused on the environment, population and the food supply of our earth. I found it alarming that at some point, not too far away, our future demand of food will pass our food supply! I chose to visit the CSPI website where I did a Tour of the Food Supply. I learned quite a bit on the food factories, farm animals, grains, and a lot more. If you haven't been there yet I recommend checking it out! The film, Diet for a New America was really interesting. I feel that by doing a review on it, I got into it a bit more. It was based on John Robbins talking about how the food choices we make every day effect our health, happiness, and the future of life on earth. Check out my review for more details on it!
Week 6
This week we had an Eye Opener of an indivdually assigned reading and watched the film "Future of Food". My assigned reading was on Chapter 29:Growers and Greens Unite. Basically what was going on in this chapter was that in some places farmers and environmentalists are coming together to solve problems together, rather than working against each other. Something I found interesting was that Organic farms are pretty limited to about 8,000 in the US, but they're profits are improving by about 25% each year! Hopefully these other farms will catch on soon. The film we watched was almost scary to me! It was talking in depth about the very disturbing truth behind unlabled, patented, genetically engineered foods. At first the concept seemed like a good idea, great lets make more food that could (weasle word) help feed the hungry. I see that being an awesome attempt, but in reality isn't the case. I think at this point scientist have gone too far. As a consumer there is no way to know if my food has been modified and I think I have the right to!
The past two weeks I have enjoyed reading the chapters and watching these films. My eyes have yet again, become more open! I look forward to the next couple weeks.
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Jayme,
ReplyDeleteIt is scary to think that GMO's are out there in the US food market and they are un-marked. This makes it very hard to track if people are getting sick from these GMO foods. We have to regulate this industry, and do much much more testing on the GMO products to make sure we as a human society do not develop genetic abnormalities. We might have a real live X-men character on our hands if this genetic mutation thing gets too out of hand.
It is good to hear that you are learning a lot of new information on foods.
Whoa, scary picture. If only all the genetically modified food looked like that so we could tell the difference. Great reflection Jayme!
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ReplyDeleteI like the picture. I agree with your last statement. I have really learned a lot the last few weeks from global warming to meat intake to genetically engineered food. Good stuff!! Good post!
Jayme-
ReplyDeleteIt does only feel like yesterday that blogging was all new to us. I like the point you made about how you think the scientists may be taking things too far. It's scary to think of what technologies we are coming up with and where it could possibly take us in a few years. Interesting picture as well!!
Haha woooow that picture is awesome!!! From the sounds of it though, there just might be something like that floating around somewhere in the near future!
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