I actually found this part of the experiment pretty easy because eating organically and locally is something that my mom has forced our family to eat for the past few years for health reasons. Although I occasionally will eat a packaged food item, such as hamburger helper, or eat from a fast food place, regularly I eat organic food items from markets such as Sprouts, Trader Joe's, or Henry's. Although the food there tends to be pricier, remembering what I learned from interviewing the farmers at the farmer's market on our last field trip, we pay extra for better quality food. My mom listens to this one health radio station in Spanish that talks about what to avoid (that will negatively affect health) and how to improve certain health conditions, and from listening to this stations is where she learned that eating organically is the best way to eat. Today for dinner I had mashed potato's made from organic potato's, organic apples, and Rosemary chicken. I do not know if the chicken came from a local farm, I completely forgot to ask and it doesn't say on the packaging, but it was pretty good. As for eating seasonally, I think that will be a difficult task for me, I tend to prefer to eat the same foods all year round, but knowing that its affecting the environment because the food that I want that is not in season here in the U.S. is being transported here with jet fuel and gasoline from distant countries where the food I want is in season is changing my mind a little bit. As organisms one of our abilities acquired through our survival instincts is adaptation. It might be unpleasant to eat foods that we find unpalatable during an entire season but if its for the sustainability of our future and our human civilization I think we can put a little effort into adapting to a new way of eating.
- Christine Brown
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