One of the main thing we did this week was when our Comida con Causa groups got together and thought about what our "Causa" part of the project would be. My group and I chose that we would mostly be focusing on food waste and that we are going to glean food that people would have normally thrown away so instead of wasting it we are going to sell it. The product we are going to sell is dehydrated fruit. Why did we pick this? because the teachers told us we have to do something pre packaged, doesn't go bad for a long time and generally easy to make. Dried fruit is a perfect idea because its delicious and people pay good money for it and its always pre packaged. I think my product will sell very well at the Liberty Public Market and I feel good about doing it since we are helping out our community by preventing food waste.
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The highlight of this week was when we had a socratic seminar about an article we read, mainly it was about climate change and about out how its changing so fast and and how we should be doing our part to help out but he goes on to say that even when we think we are helping in reality we aren't really. One example of this is when he says some people try to reduce their carbon emission by walking to work but when you walk you use more energy and you breathe a lot more which releases more carbon but the big thing is that you'll eat more and when you eat more you are making more of a demand for food that in order to get/make that food you have to release a lot of pollution such as green house gasses like methane or harmful gasses like carbon. Also he asks "Why bother?" when he says “There is someone in shanghai who has just bought a new car, is eager to swallow every last bite of meat he foreswore, and who is positively itching to replace every last pound of CO2 i'm struggling to longer emit.” and to me this is saying is it worth putting in all this extra effort if someone else will just be undoing it across the globe.
The main thing we did this week was watch a documentary called "Food Inc." This film is about the food industry and about what really goes on. When we think about where our food is coming from we think of a grassy field with cows grazing and a red barn and a windmill but in reality our food comes from a big grey building where chickens don't have room to walk much less are able to walk because we modify their diet to make it so they are as fat as can be and we don't care how it affects them we only care that they give us more meat and make us more money. One farmer stood up and let the cameras go behind the scenes to see what a chicken farm looks like and it was crazy the hardly had any space between each other and when the did walk they went about a foot and then they couldn't support themselves any longer so they had to sit down. And these farmers are basically stuck in this lifestyle because they are in a sea of contracts with other large corporations and the farmers like the one in the film get a loan for around 500,000 to build their farm and make from that around 18,000 a year, all this hard work and stress and you'd be better off working at a McDonalds. I think that the government should enforce more laws for animal rights and maybe look into developing a more efficient and more humane way of producing food.
This week we had a field trip to the local Ocean Beach farmers market to check out what the environment felt like and we also got advice from some of the vendors because they had been doing it a long time and have a lot of experience and knowledge to share. We did this because later in the year we will be starting our own booth at the liberty public market and were getting some do's and dont's to help us be more successful. I was really successful in making conversation with the workers and also making a small personal connection so they would feel more willing to share helpful information. For example one lady who was selling rings I asked if she could size my finger then I tried on a ring and it got stuck. She laughed and was able to get it off then I asked if that happened often and thats how the successful interview began. One area I grew in that trip was taking manage of the work, since I was one of the two only people in my group to go to the market the whole group was relying on me to bring back the info and I feel like I did that really well compared to other times when I usually would have slacked off. One thing I feel like I could have done better is include other people because I hung out with my friends even though they weren't in my group and I took them away from their group which was not a good choice.
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