The topic for LDH2BM students is - "What makes life meaningful?". If that is too hard, feel free to tweak that topic - perhaps to - "What makes my life feel meaningfuler?" You should connect to specific areas we've investigated - including dominant and marginal corporate messages, your own thoughts, the elderly, animals, physicality, health, food, and the fundamental energy basis of our society. Please include some quotes from your own or others' earlier work that expresses strongly what you believe or what you don't (any longer) believe. Feel free to include an explicit quote like, "This is the way I'm (mostly) thinking about this topic now - but my understanding is evolving!"
Some starter suggestions and questions:
You should share your own orientation to living a meaningful life. Contextualize your point of view in terms of the dominant perspective, other individuals' perspectives, and your own evolving understanding. Is meaning possible given death, infinity, and the Universe? What's your stance on happiness (the dominant easy answer for a meaningful life) - what is it, how important is it, what causes it? What about the other dominant answers - family, success, self-improvement? How about the "marginal" answers - authenticity, creativity, physicality, or deep understanding? What is the significance of the social - should we strive to be "above" our desire for acceptance and affirmation or should we accept our desire and channel it (how?)? What is the significance of our animality - of our physicality and desire for touch and sensation? Feel free to include a disclaimer like, "This is the way I'm (mostly) thinking about this topic now - but my understanding is evolving!"
Monday, June 8, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Final Food Assignment Including More Resources
Food has been and always will play a big role in our lives. We need it to survive and keep what we call "healthy". We have never taken time to actually realize where our food is coming from, whose hands it been on and how the animals we eat are killed. I feel like even if we were to know the history of our food, we as Americans will continue to eat it becuase its just "a way of life".
In the video, "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons, its supposed to be making a joke on how cows are mistreated and abused of consistently. They cannot fight for themselves, therefore we as humans take this as an advantage and do what we want, as long as we get our food. Making fun of the industrial food culture gives out a message to all the people to try to change their way of life, their way of living and especially their way of eating. We need to take some time to think twice before eating the food we tend to eat. In the lines, "they to grow, grow to die. Die to be at the hamburger fry Cows well done" shows a lot of what kind of people we are. We are all selfish people. Farmers feed the cows to get them real fat and plump so that when to cutting them up, we have lots of meat to eat. This is so wrong for them, and as we find out this information we continue to eat these poor animals.
As the song continues, the story changes. This time the song is saying on what if the cows take revenge and take over us by killing all humans and giving them the same treatment the cows got. Its a little redundant to see farm animals gathering together and forming a group to fight for themselves but then again this song makes a great point about abusing the rights that animals have. To treat animal in a hurtful way becuase they are "lower" than you is a very low thing to do. We shouldn't just think of cows as something we devour but more as living creatures that also have feelings and rights. This song is funny but at the same time serious because the message the writer is sending out is very strong.
I really do think we as Americans should think twice about how we live our lives and the food we are putting into our bodies. Just having an idea of where our food comes from shows that we care about what we are feeding our bodies. People who are over eating and not even realizing what their bodies are feeding on are selfish and stupid. I just think we should have some heart and think twice about our actions towards the animals we eat. For example. McDonalds food is filled with oil and ingredients that are very harmful to our bodies.
In the video "VROOM" you can see how harmful the trucker is, he is basically killing the plants and vegetables by spraying a whole bunch of pesticides and liquids on the. Industrial food industries are putting different chemicals in our food but we don't bother to take a look at what is happening around us.
In conclusion, I feel tha they way we look at food isnt the best way that will benefit the way we will our lives. We need to think before we make the actions we make. Even the thought of knowing where your food comes and what hands its been in is a first step to being more aware about the things around you.
In the video, "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons, its supposed to be making a joke on how cows are mistreated and abused of consistently. They cannot fight for themselves, therefore we as humans take this as an advantage and do what we want, as long as we get our food. Making fun of the industrial food culture gives out a message to all the people to try to change their way of life, their way of living and especially their way of eating. We need to take some time to think twice before eating the food we tend to eat. In the lines, "they to grow, grow to die. Die to be at the hamburger fry Cows well done" shows a lot of what kind of people we are. We are all selfish people. Farmers feed the cows to get them real fat and plump so that when to cutting them up, we have lots of meat to eat. This is so wrong for them, and as we find out this information we continue to eat these poor animals.
As the song continues, the story changes. This time the song is saying on what if the cows take revenge and take over us by killing all humans and giving them the same treatment the cows got. Its a little redundant to see farm animals gathering together and forming a group to fight for themselves but then again this song makes a great point about abusing the rights that animals have. To treat animal in a hurtful way becuase they are "lower" than you is a very low thing to do. We shouldn't just think of cows as something we devour but more as living creatures that also have feelings and rights. This song is funny but at the same time serious because the message the writer is sending out is very strong.
I really do think we as Americans should think twice about how we live our lives and the food we are putting into our bodies. Just having an idea of where our food comes from shows that we care about what we are feeding our bodies. People who are over eating and not even realizing what their bodies are feeding on are selfish and stupid. I just think we should have some heart and think twice about our actions towards the animals we eat. For example. McDonalds food is filled with oil and ingredients that are very harmful to our bodies.
In the video "VROOM" you can see how harmful the trucker is, he is basically killing the plants and vegetables by spraying a whole bunch of pesticides and liquids on the. Industrial food industries are putting different chemicals in our food but we don't bother to take a look at what is happening around us.
In conclusion, I feel tha they way we look at food isnt the best way that will benefit the way we will our lives. We need to think before we make the actions we make. Even the thought of knowing where your food comes and what hands its been in is a first step to being more aware about the things around you.
Food # 8 - Industrial Food
Virtually all the food you eat is industrially produced - fossil-fueled machines transform the planet into a factory-like production system - once sacred rituals of harvest and joyous eating now reduced to their crudest essentials ("all that was sacred is profaned").
You've now been exposed that insight in several forms - especially in considering your own foodways and the dominant foodways around you. Many people especially object to the industrialization of non-human animals as food sources - and perhaps that's right. But the same model of producing food applies to cherry tomatos, potatos, and sunflower seeds. Your whole life you've been hearing from advocates of industrial food - what do some of the intelligent critics of this system emphasize?
Please write a 2-3 paragraph response that addresses 2 or more of the pieces from the following websites. Be sure to connect your analysis of the media-piece with your evolving understanding of your own foodways and this culture's dominant foodways. If you don't want to be limited to the websites below please find some of your own and suggest them as comments to this post.
Meatrix -
Industrial Food Isn't Cheap -
Pollan vs Colbert -
On Obama's Agricultural Policy -
Animal Cruelty -
You've now been exposed that insight in several forms - especially in considering your own foodways and the dominant foodways around you. Many people especially object to the industrialization of non-human animals as food sources - and perhaps that's right. But the same model of producing food applies to cherry tomatos, potatos, and sunflower seeds. Your whole life you've been hearing from advocates of industrial food - what do some of the intelligent critics of this system emphasize?
Please write a 2-3 paragraph response that addresses 2 or more of the pieces from the following websites. Be sure to connect your analysis of the media-piece with your evolving understanding of your own foodways and this culture's dominant foodways. If you don't want to be limited to the websites below please find some of your own and suggest them as comments to this post.
Meatrix -
Industrial Food Isn't Cheap -
Pollan vs Colbert -
On Obama's Agricultural Policy -
Animal Cruelty -
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