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:*Food System Research & Food Activism -- Research a specific aspect of food production and distribution in your local food system. A research focus involves documenting the issue, whereas an activism focus may involve trying to promote positive change. Here are a few examples: | :*Food System Research & Food Activism -- Research a specific aspect of food production and distribution in your local food system. A research focus involves documenting the issue, whereas an activism focus may involve trying to promote positive change. Here are a few examples: | ||
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::*Research a particular grocery store's sourcing choices. | ::*Research a particular grocery store's sourcing choices. | ||
| − | :::*Examples: Why does a local store sell peppers from Holland? Can they be sourced locally? What organizations exist in Spokane to help promote local food production? | + | :::*Examples: |
| + | :::*Why does a local store sell peppers from Holland? Can they be sourced locally? | ||
| + | :::*What organizations exist in Spokane to help promote local food production? | ||
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| + | ::*Visit a local supplier of organic foods or a local producer of industrial foods. Integrate relevant course issues into your analysis and reflection on your visit. | ||
| + | :::*Examples: Visit Pure Eiyre Dairy in Othello, which touts its humane and organic methods. Sample their products, comparing them to industrial equivalents. http://www.pureeiredairy.com . | ||
| + | :::*Try to visit Snyder's bread factory and then one of the artisan bakers in town: Common Crumb, Luna (Boosie's), Petite Chat. Assess one or more restaurant menus in terms of nutrition, sourcing, or gastronomy. | ||
| + | :::*Visit a local organic ranch or farm to gain insight into their values and challenges. What are the economics of such an enterprise. | ||
:*Food movie and book groups -- Get together with other students or work on your own to deepen your understanding of an additional book or movie source on food. Choose journals and/or class reporting as part of this assignment. | :*Food movie and book groups -- Get together with other students or work on your own to deepen your understanding of an additional book or movie source on food. Choose journals and/or class reporting as part of this assignment. | ||
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:::*''Catching Fire'' Richard Wrangham -- This book by a leading medical anthropologist has been widely discussed and referenced in the last year. It brings together a fascinating literature on the effects of cooking on human evolution. | :::*''Catching Fire'' Richard Wrangham -- This book by a leading medical anthropologist has been widely discussed and referenced in the last year. It brings together a fascinating literature on the effects of cooking on human evolution. | ||
:::*''The Good Gut'' Justin and Erica Sonnenburg -- This microbiology couple at Stanford contributed this volume to the current discussion gut bacterial" or your microbiome. | :::*''The Good Gut'' Justin and Erica Sonnenburg -- This microbiology couple at Stanford contributed this volume to the current discussion gut bacterial" or your microbiome. | ||
| − | :::*''Mindful Eating'' Jan Chozen Bays -- In this work, the author, a medical doctor, explores the ways that becoming a more mindful eater can improve your awareness of the importance of eating, your diet, control of appetite, and enjoyment of food. | + | :::*''Mindful Eating'' Jan Chozen Bays -- In this work, the author, a medical doctor, explores the ways that becoming a more mindful eater can improve your awareness of the importance of eating, your diet, control of appetite, and enjoyment of food. |
| − | + | :::*''In Meat We Trust'' Maureen Ogle -- Historians will like this story of the US cultural and dietary relationship with meat. | |
| − | + | :::*''Philosophers at Table'' Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke -- A recent work in philosophy on the nature of food and being human. | |
==Philosophy of Food Resources== | ==Philosophy of Food Resources== | ||
Revision as of 20:31, 20 November 2016
General Resources
- Google Forms:
- Audio From Class
- To access audio from class, fill in the weblink following this example: alfino.org/audiofromclass/4191SEP10.m4a
- Use a 1 or 2 depending upon section
- Fill in the month and date and ".m4a"
Rough Outline of Optional Philosophy of Food Assignments
- Food System Research & Food Activism -- Research a specific aspect of food production and distribution in your local food system. A research focus involves documenting the issue, whereas an activism focus may involve trying to promote positive change. Here are a few examples:
- Research a particular grocery store's sourcing choices.
- Examples:
- Why does a local store sell peppers from Holland? Can they be sourced locally?
- What organizations exist in Spokane to help promote local food production?
- Visit a local supplier of organic foods or a local producer of industrial foods. Integrate relevant course issues into your analysis and reflection on your visit.
- Examples: Visit Pure Eiyre Dairy in Othello, which touts its humane and organic methods. Sample their products, comparing them to industrial equivalents. http://www.pureeiredairy.com .
- Try to visit Snyder's bread factory and then one of the artisan bakers in town: Common Crumb, Luna (Boosie's), Petite Chat. Assess one or more restaurant menus in terms of nutrition, sourcing, or gastronomy.
- Visit a local organic ranch or farm to gain insight into their values and challenges. What are the economics of such an enterprise.
- Food movie and book groups -- Get together with other students or work on your own to deepen your understanding of an additional book or movie source on food. Choose journals and/or class reporting as part of this assignment.
- Some possible books:
- Catching Fire Richard Wrangham -- This book by a leading medical anthropologist has been widely discussed and referenced in the last year. It brings together a fascinating literature on the effects of cooking on human evolution.
- The Good Gut Justin and Erica Sonnenburg -- This microbiology couple at Stanford contributed this volume to the current discussion gut bacterial" or your microbiome.
- Mindful Eating Jan Chozen Bays -- In this work, the author, a medical doctor, explores the ways that becoming a more mindful eater can improve your awareness of the importance of eating, your diet, control of appetite, and enjoyment of food.
- In Meat We Trust Maureen Ogle -- Historians will like this story of the US cultural and dietary relationship with meat.
- Philosophers at Table Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke -- A recent work in philosophy on the nature of food and being human.
Philosophy of Food Resources
David Kalplan's U of North Texas Philosophy of Food bibliography: [3]
Marler Clark -- [4]
Fasting -- Mark Mattson: Why fasting bolsters brain power. [5]
Functional Medicine Site: [6]
The Newbeats, "Bread and Butter" 1964 [7] Nancy Walker, "I Can Cook, Too!" [8]
- Film: 100,000 beating hearts [9]
- Electric Spoon [[10]]
