Almost Done

The way I eat has not changed much since this unit has begun. I eat the same, but every time I pick up food I think of ERW. Every time I am with my friends and we eat meat products, someone has to say “ERW” or “GMOs” or something of that sort.  What we learned in this unit has not changed what I eat, but just brought up some more conversations between my friends and I.  We talk about the dangers of what can be in our food yet we do not do anything different about our lifestyles.  It is actually quite funny that we do that.  We know how corrupt and messy the food system and corporations are, however we do not seem to care enough to stop and think about what we are eating.

I mean I guess this politics of food unit made me more aware, but I don’t know. I am still eating what I usually eat.  Personally, I think if a food product were to affect the health of a close friend or relative of mine drastically, I would be extremely careful of what I eat and I would try to help change the system. The ethos part of this lesson hit me when the boy in Food Inc. died from E. coli, but it did not hit me hard enough for me to make a change in my diet. Overall, this was an interesting, but I am glad it’s coming to an end because the research paper was very time consuming.