I am very pleased with what we produced for this project. Lauren and I worked very well together and attacked the project with gusto. We shared in the work equally and met each other's time frame. We learned a lot about our topic and basically learned that as consumers we must advocate for ourselves because the government isn't going to do it for us.
All of the readings assigned from class and the journal From "Farm to Table" elped develop our ideas and opinions. We finished up with a power point to make the topic more interesting to present which was a great idea Lauren. I was thinking along the lines of an outline for the presentation part of the project. All in all I think we did a good job with an unpopular subject,
I chose Lauren as a partner. We have worked well together on many projects through this program so it was an easy choice. We began choosing our topic after discussing "Food, Inc." a documentary. What struck us was that even with all of the supposed laws and regulations in place, a little boy could dye from contaminated meat. We decided to explore what exactly was the problem. So we started looking at policies regarding the safety of food processing and distribution.
We decided on option #1, a traditional paper mainly because of time constraints. Finding interviewees and setting up would be impossible for this subject.
We began by studying Kevin's Law, a bill intended to safegaurd against illness from meat. From there we went on to study journals and other writings.
We each took parts of the paper and wrote our individual piece on word. Then met to put it all together. It was cool because we seemed to have found the right complimaentery information for the final product.
To make presentation easier io digest we created a power point to show the class.
Kenner, R (Producer,Director) and Scholsser, E. (Producer). (2008). Food, Inc.[DVD].
Food, Inc. is a documentary that focuses on the way food is mass produced in our country, for our consumption. Often the process is detrimental to our health, the workers health and the health of plants and animals. Antibiotics are given to chicken, cows, pork, and so on to prevent diseases they are exposed to from being packed together. Plants are treated with chemicals to mass produce which we the consumer ingest. Diseases like E. Coli 157:H7 have experienced huge mutation problems and not just in the cattle or other animals, but from the run off into water supplies for irrigation. This is proving to infect spinach, and apple juice as well. People have died from this disease. The documentary further goes on to state that federal inpections are lacking and the health of Americans is largely ignored by regulators.
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