Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Summer Takes Action
In order to take action on my topic I signed a petition called Commend Efforts to Reduce Global Food Waste. I signed this petition not because this is for a class project, but because I think that Global Food Waste is a continuing, terrible issue and the amount of people that go hungry each day is inhumane. This connects to democratic values because I can sign the petition if I choose because it is what I want to do. I may not be "voting" but I am choosing to take action on a cause that I believe is important. I think talking about Social Justice issues is important in a class, especially at an older age. I think its important to give your students something to stand up for, and a healthy debate on a topic you strongly believe in is something I think all students should have the opportunity to do. I don't think its write to personally throw your own opinions on the students, but I think that having discussions on Social Justice issues is a good tool to get kids to start standing up for what they believe in from a young age. Pertaining to the quote, I think that this is true. I think that this is always going to be a topic to talk about and I think that everyone is going to have their own thoughts on it.
Current News on Global Food Waste
This map just goes to show how much global hunger food waste has caused. The red sections show the parts of the world that are very highly undernourished, and the green sections show the places in the world that dont have much of as many problems with undernourishment. As you can see, there is more red, orange, yellow, and gold than there is green, this isn't right. We need to work globally to stop the spread of red and begin the spread of green.
What is happening today you may ask?
Currently, global food waste campaigns are suffering from data deficiency. This means that even though food waste has been identified as an issue that is worth addressing there is limited evidence on how much is really being wasted and where exactly should we begin to figure out how to reduce it. Until we can know for sure that the data that was created about how much food is being wasted it is going to be extremely difficult to get the public to really see this as an issue.
Article: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/oct/28/global-food-waste-tesco-fao-data
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Summers interview with Cj
I choose to interview my boyfriend Cj because I know that he doesn't know much about this subject. I also wanted to know his perspective because he is going to school in North Carolina and I am curious if his school has talked about Global Food Waste.
Q: Are you aware of what global food waste is?
A: No I am not.
Q: Do you know what causes global food waste?
A: People not eating the correct amount of food or taking too much causes global food waste.
Q: Do you think restaurants should give their left over food to homeless shelters? Would this make a difference?
A: Yes I think they should give their food to homeless shelters this would make a difference in society.
Q: Would you be willing to reduce food waste in your own home?
A: No because I think that I eat the right amount of food and I don't waste it.
Q: Do you think this issue is overlooked?
A: Yes I think this is overlooked because when you first asked me about what it was I didn't know and clearly it is a global issues.
Q: Do you think this subject should be discussed in the classroom setting?
A: I only think this should be discussed in a health class or a social studies class.
Q:What can YOU do personally to stop wasting food daily?
A: I can stop going to the dining halls and taking too much food.
Q: In the U.S alone we throw away almost $750 billion dollars worth of food while 870 million people go hungry each day. Is this right? Why or why not.
A: No this is obviously not right, that is wrong. It doesn't make sense and if we put our money where our mouth is no one would go hungry, $750 billion dollars worth of food can feed 870 million people.
Q: If this continues we wont be able to meet our future food demand and we wont have resources available in the future. Does this change your opinion on the subject knowing it could affect your family in the future?
A: I really don't think that here in the U.S we will run out of food so this changes the way I think but it will not change the way I act.
Q: Do you think your college dining hall should give its left over food to people in need?
A: Yes I defiantly do.
Reaction after interview:
After my interview with Cj I learned that he didn't know much about Global Food Waste and he was never taught about it in school. I don't think that he is educated enough on the subject and it made me realize that we need to put global food waste into our school systems because people need to be more educated on this subject.
Q: Are you aware of what global food waste is?
A: No I am not.
Q: Do you know what causes global food waste?
A: People not eating the correct amount of food or taking too much causes global food waste.
Q: Do you think restaurants should give their left over food to homeless shelters? Would this make a difference?
A: Yes I think they should give their food to homeless shelters this would make a difference in society.
Q: Would you be willing to reduce food waste in your own home?
A: No because I think that I eat the right amount of food and I don't waste it.
Q: Do you think this issue is overlooked?
A: Yes I think this is overlooked because when you first asked me about what it was I didn't know and clearly it is a global issues.
Q: Do you think this subject should be discussed in the classroom setting?
A: I only think this should be discussed in a health class or a social studies class.
Q:What can YOU do personally to stop wasting food daily?
A: I can stop going to the dining halls and taking too much food.
Q: In the U.S alone we throw away almost $750 billion dollars worth of food while 870 million people go hungry each day. Is this right? Why or why not.
A: No this is obviously not right, that is wrong. It doesn't make sense and if we put our money where our mouth is no one would go hungry, $750 billion dollars worth of food can feed 870 million people.
Q: If this continues we wont be able to meet our future food demand and we wont have resources available in the future. Does this change your opinion on the subject knowing it could affect your family in the future?
A: I really don't think that here in the U.S we will run out of food so this changes the way I think but it will not change the way I act.
Q: Do you think your college dining hall should give its left over food to people in need?
A: Yes I defiantly do.
Reaction after interview:
After my interview with Cj I learned that he didn't know much about Global Food Waste and he was never taught about it in school. I don't think that he is educated enough on the subject and it made me realize that we need to put global food waste into our school systems because people need to be more educated on this subject.
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