Friday, May 7, 2010
Food, glorious food!
I really enjoyed the food section. I have worked with food for years, enjoy cooking, and was pretty shocked to see the dots of the food production process connected. I really knew very little about the involvement of corn in the manufacturing of SO MANY foods/things. Also the push towards, and away from GMOs is shocking. I remember someone's post (sorry for not remembering the author) comparing making a purchase to the license agreements we sign by checking the box before using new computer applications. That bit has stuck in my head ever since. By buying products, we are signing our agreement/acceptance of the entire process it took to get it to us. I had made this connection in terms of some processes, like sweat-shop made garments, but NEVER connected it to food until then. It connects to more than just food because we often stanp our approval on many things without really acknowledging the entire process or hybrid that connects to it. I had a lot of fun in this class. I wish more of my classes actually provoked thought...
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I agree. All the positive remarks about Iowa's corn fields being turned on their heads so swiftly was a bit of a blow to me, and the idea that we are perpetuating this has stuck. But, it is had to feel a heavy burden for this, at least for me, as the market works so hard to make all this invisible to me, and in so doing, makes the product seem all the better on this end... extra cheap! That just seems like capitalism at work to me, and while I understand the levels of impoverishment in the parts of the world with sweat shops is essentially unfathomable to me, it isn't like these people had to buy into our system necessarily. (maybe they did, but I certainly have a hard time blaming that on me)
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