I started this project out feeling good about what I ate. I knew that organic was good for you and I knew what felt good in my body. However I had many questions about my relationship with food. I knew how fortunate I am that my mom and step dad manage to buy organic healthy food even with our poor financial situation, and I have experienced the way my family now relates to food with much less money then we used to have. As I have grown older I have thought about the relationship with food I want to have, which would be one that nourished everything around me to the fullest extent, and then wondered what that would look like. After participating in the food project I have learned that food is so much more complicated than I thought. I had no idea that food affects the political battles, the resources, the environment, and the people of the world to such a huge extant. After all it makes sense; the need to feed the world has become a massive dilemma. How I want to relate to food is now much more complicated, the biggest way this project impacted me has been the thought and the insight I have gained into food. I now am thinking deeply about the impacts my eating has. I have not changed my diet or done anything drastic however I am very aware now. The other day my mom and I were buying chocolate and I told her to make sure it was fair trade, because I was aware of the child labor used on many coco plantations.
This project was difficult for me when I had to start revising my draft. During this process I realized how much my work needed to be filled out. I had a wonderful start to my paper but it lacked good topic sentences and structure. I needed to connect my paper in a full and impactful way, because I sure had the research for a compelling point. It was challenging for me to revise my draft further. I had lots to work with. It was just confusing and demanded a lot of time out of me. I feel I could have done it better. I also had some trouble narrowing down my theisms statement because of the multitude of ways I could approach my research. In the end I approached as a critique of industrial food systems.
Truthfully looking back at my righting I have pride and disappointment. I loved the topic I wrote about and I think I had some very deep and powerful insight into my issue. In the end I would have liked to work with my paper more. It had a lot of room to be filled out. I realized that my righting also lacks correct, simple sentence structure. So in the future I plan to right with passion and continually revise until I feel my point is bleeding through the white pages.
Now I would like to address the question that my food unit started with, “How does one navigate the Omnivores dilemma?” well this is my answer. I believe the one of the biggest parts to navigating our dilemma is community. So much of our problem comes from the fact that our culture is not based around the concept of love and care. We are based on the ideal of individualized profit. If America could build food culture, food culture with tradition and the desire to care for each other, we would be healthier. The true dilemma we have is the dilemma of navigating through each other’s lies, violence, oppression and greed. It is very important to educate and give people hope and resources so we can build a better relationship with food. Witch can only happen through a strong relationship with each other.
This project was difficult for me when I had to start revising my draft. During this process I realized how much my work needed to be filled out. I had a wonderful start to my paper but it lacked good topic sentences and structure. I needed to connect my paper in a full and impactful way, because I sure had the research for a compelling point. It was challenging for me to revise my draft further. I had lots to work with. It was just confusing and demanded a lot of time out of me. I feel I could have done it better. I also had some trouble narrowing down my theisms statement because of the multitude of ways I could approach my research. In the end I approached as a critique of industrial food systems.
Truthfully looking back at my righting I have pride and disappointment. I loved the topic I wrote about and I think I had some very deep and powerful insight into my issue. In the end I would have liked to work with my paper more. It had a lot of room to be filled out. I realized that my righting also lacks correct, simple sentence structure. So in the future I plan to right with passion and continually revise until I feel my point is bleeding through the white pages.
Now I would like to address the question that my food unit started with, “How does one navigate the Omnivores dilemma?” well this is my answer. I believe the one of the biggest parts to navigating our dilemma is community. So much of our problem comes from the fact that our culture is not based around the concept of love and care. We are based on the ideal of individualized profit. If America could build food culture, food culture with tradition and the desire to care for each other, we would be healthier. The true dilemma we have is the dilemma of navigating through each other’s lies, violence, oppression and greed. It is very important to educate and give people hope and resources so we can build a better relationship with food. Witch can only happen through a strong relationship with each other.