Anthony talked about a New York Times article in his blog from last week. The article was about new Congress defined term vegetables. This specifically impacts the quality and health of food in public school cafeterias. According to this article, pizza, with it's tomato paste sauce now counts as a vegetable and cafeterias are serving that instead of carrots and broccoli and cucumbers. I think this says a lot about our capitilist culture--we would sacrifice the quality of our food to sav money and cut corners. While we may be saving money now, we will be spending that money on medical bills and insurance costs to pay for our obesity and other weight-related diseases. Food does not need to be redefined, rather rediscovered.
This past week Courtney also wrote about a New York Times article on government takeover in the slums of Brazil in preparation for the summer 2016 Olympics. She discussed the gap between the wealthy and the poor in Brazil and compared the Brazilian lifestyle to an American one. I did not realize the difference between the two economic classes in Brazil. In America, everyone is proud to be middle class it seems. My friend did a project a few years ago asking students what they thougt poverty meant. The video was very interesting because everyone defined poverty in a way that kept themselves above the poverty line. The subjects of the film were from a variety of different economic backgrounds, yet they all defined themselves as middle class. I'd be curious to know how poverty would be defined if the same project were to be done in Brazil in the neighborhood described in Courtney's blog.
This past week Courtney also wrote about a New York Times article on government takeover in the slums of Brazil in preparation for the summer 2016 Olympics. She discussed the gap between the wealthy and the poor in Brazil and compared the Brazilian lifestyle to an American one. I did not realize the difference between the two economic classes in Brazil. In America, everyone is proud to be middle class it seems. My friend did a project a few years ago asking students what they thougt poverty meant. The video was very interesting because everyone defined poverty in a way that kept themselves above the poverty line. The subjects of the film were from a variety of different economic backgrounds, yet they all defined themselves as middle class. I'd be curious to know how poverty would be defined if the same project were to be done in Brazil in the neighborhood described in Courtney's blog.
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