So far our project is coming together. We have two interviews comparing organic vs inorganic that were conducted by Alissa and Kate and added to our oral history report. David wrote the introduction while I completed the afterward. We also completed our 5 questions that we have created to answer in our Collaborative research project:1. What are the benefits of eating organic and locally grown products?
2. How does eating organic and locally grown foods affect your body as compared to products that are sold in the supermarket?
3. Is buying healthy foods financially beneficial?
4. Why are people choosing the foods that they buy? For taste? For price?
5. Are consumers aware of the food industry?
We defined What does Organic mean, What does non-organic mean, and What are the effects on children. We also researched types of food with pesticides and compared them. price, health benefits and tastes. We also conducted a food test which Dave completed.For my research I found two books that are helpful : Easy Green Organic by Anna Getty. and In Defense of Food (An eaters manifesto) by Michael Pollan.I found more facts that both books describe and we are adding recipes that people can do at home.
Collaboration: Over the week/weekend , Alissa conducted an interview yesterday with the woman she babysits for who lives a mostly organic lifestyle. I have not reviewed the interview but tomorrow in class I hope to see what information we have. Katie conducted an interview with her sister, who does not live an organic lifestyle, and eats mostly junk food or food that is obtained quickly.
Overall, our goal for the interviews is to compare these two interviews and prove that organic eating is more beneficial for the health of people, as opposed to inorganic, and how you can make the switch by discussing costs, recipes, and life style changes. Katie and Alissa will both come up with introductions for our interviews since they have conducted them first hand. Me and Dave are going to provide each interview with an afterward once we watch both of the interviews. All and all, this is a collaborative assignment but we are taking the hierachal approach where each member in the group is still working collaboratively because all four of us worked together to find what our research question is, and we all came up with interview questions together. Together, we are all working separately on this project because we are each doing different pieces, but in the end it will all come together as one project because we are pooling together all our ideas.
Today, it is so easy in this face-paced hectic life style to want everything in an instant. When you want to know the score of the baseball game, just look it up on an app, or if you see a dress in an advertisement just surf the web, order it, and POOF its yours. Unfortunately in America, when it comes to food distribution we expect the same time of instantaneous output. With this price comes consequences. In the previous articles we have read, Michael Pollan of An Omnivore's Dilema talks of the horrendous way that almost 90% of meats goes through line production and the different chemicals that are involved in the process. Recently, as researches have discovered these horrendous processes, documentaries, books, and articles have come forth, provoking monumental life changes of the way people eat in the 20th century. Good, Clean, Fair, Rhetoric of the Slow-Food Movement- by Stephen Schiedner talks of the monumental change that people have been discovering. Schnieder attempts to bring into light the different levels of our food production process, and encourages people to take "slow-food" into consideration by visiting local meat markets and local farms. A big influence on Schiedner has been Carlo Petrini, who believes food is a network “of men and women, of knowledge, of methods, of environments, of relations”—a network in which all participants are co-producers of cultural and culinary knowledge and traditions (175). Within the new gastronomy,then, food is an expression of various political, economic, cultural, and agricultural networks, all of which demand the serious attention of any would-be gastronome. Understood in this way, “food is the primary defining factor of human identity,” (36). By having this definition, the slow-food movement attempts to distinguish food which is not only healthier and tastier, but what is morally better.
**This post is collaborative** The group members I am working with for this project are Alissa Francisco, Katie Collins, and David Reyes. Together, we have pooled questions together to create an interview where we question the issue of choosing organic foods vs. inorganic foods, and the effects these have on growing children. We will touch upon questions like: What are the costs? How do you go about eating out at restaurants? What about school lunches with kids? What foods are worth choosing organic? and What changed your mind towards going organic? We have chosen to interview, Alissa's family she babysits for, who has made the decision to go organic in her own household. These are our questions: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
"Reflective and reflexive thinking, as well as, research are the differences between askng why something happened and asking what do we do now."
Once someone has the belief on a topic, reflexive research involves going back to the topic and monitering beliefs. Reflective thinking, in terms of research involves the beliefs that one may previously have of the certain topic. Opinions may be bias or even subconscious. I believe being a reflexive researcher is the way to research to have a subjective opinion.
COLLABORATION:
Fountaine and Hunter describe 2 forms of collaboration: hierarchical and dialogic. I believe dialogic is a more beneficial strategy where group member's roles are interchangeable where as hierarchical is where group members have independent roles.
Qualitative Research- In my experience with qualitative research is by definition open-ended questioning in which you wish tho hear the interviewees own words or stories. To me this is the exact mode we need to use during our interviews to get wide ideas and explanations for our topic. I think this will be more beneficial than quantatative.
We will also apply narrative inquiry to our collaboration. In which we will ask the interviewees to further explain in a narrative.
All my life my mom has always bought organic food. We never had tasty cereals, brand name snacks like pop tarts, yodels, Lays, Fruity Pebbles. Nothing. We were known by my friends as the "organic house" It was kind of embarrassing, but now I see how beneifcial it is to health. "Americans have never had a single, strong, stable culinary tradition to guide us," (Pollen, 5) I think that compared to other nations, this is a huge factor which contributes to the American eating disorder. Because we have never had a food culture, the American food industry has turned to scientists, and ways to distribute mass amounts of food.
I also thought it was interesting when Pollen talks about the way we define the food marketers phrases such as "natural grill flavor," "heart health," "farm fresh" and "range fed." First glance, its easy to believe that you are consuming something that is considered healthy and cheap. But if you delve deeper into the meaning of the label, these mean nothing but advertising hoaxes. Only certain labels like 100% organic, or non-corn fed, mean that the food was processed humanely.
Kaitlyn's. nostalgic Twitterive had a whimsical dreamy tone throughout, which I completely identified with. I loved the introduction of talking about herself in third person. To make the story stronger, I would actually add yourself as a character, the same girl you talked about being a "tomboy." You have a clear place just need a specific story Laura Green- Wow, just wow. I wish you had presented this because it is extremely emotional and I could never imagine. I think you had just the right amount of genres and although the dog and cat part was sooo sad I liked how the before after of your cat worked. I loved how the stairs out of words worked when but thought "I'm finally home" should be written upwards as opposed to down. The only thing I would add would be a conversation with someone in your family or a friend that conveys emotion because this is story is really inspirational.
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Kelly- This was absolutely adorable. What I thought was the strongest part was the layout in which you presented your Twitterive-in the form a book with chapter. I thought that was a great connection with your story! MAybe to enhance it you can compare it with your own life and how you grew up, which books were your favorites and how was reading as a child a big part of your own life
I was really nervous to present the presentation, but as I got up there, I realized everything I will gain from it will be very beneficial. I plan to possibly add interviews or different genres as opposed to just the narrative I had typed.
At the beginning of the brainstorming part of the assignment, I was somewhat timid and unsure if my technology skills would be comparable to that of my other classmates and what the professor expected. As I wrote my story, however, I found that the mediums were not as hard as I thought. Some of the tools our professor suggested were simple, yet creative, such as the newspaper clip maker, slideshow, and wordle apps. I felt like a using medley of different technology applications through this project really enhanced my writing process of writing many genres. I felt like it was v
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