For this blog post, we were asked to read Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement by Steven Schneider. We were to find three quotes and talk about how we can relate them to our Oral History Project. This article was interesting and basically restated everything that we have been learning/researching.
Quote 1- “The rise of organic labels in supermarkets, the growth of local farmers markets, and the emergence of chains such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe’s all attest to consumers’ desire to avoid the perceived pitfalls of industrial food.”
For our Oral History Project, we are interviewing someone who lives the organic lifestyle. We can use this quote to possibly introduce our interview. It shows us how people are beginning to eat organically because they are trying to avoid all of the negative things that are put into our food today.
Quote 2- “The organization’s advocacy of artisanal foodstuffs and small-scale production also runs the risk of creating a movement limited to those who can afford it.”
One part of our project that we are trying to include is a comparison of grocery receipts. One receipt of someone who eats and shops organically, compared to a person who just buys any produce. We also included some interview questions dealing with expenses and costs for the organic lifestyle. This quote would be a good introduction to that section of our project. We can either prove this statement wrong, or agree with it based on our findings.
Quote 3- “By approaching how and what we eat in a more thoughtful and informed way, we also begin to think about the society in which we live through the same lens. Following this logic, Slow Food ‘asserts the absolute centrality of the role of food (a centrality which perhaps has been lost) if one wishes to interpret—and perhaps influence—the dynamics that underlie our society and our world’”
This quote shows that once we start to think about eating healthy and making lifestyle changes, we will then begin to think about the rest of our society the same way. This quote really shows how much what we eat not only affects ourselves, but our community around us. This quote would be a great way to prove that eating organically can help your life in many different ways.
Quote 1- “The rise of organic labels in supermarkets, the growth of local farmers markets, and the emergence of chains such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe’s all attest to consumers’ desire to avoid the perceived pitfalls of industrial food.”
For our Oral History Project, we are interviewing someone who lives the organic lifestyle. We can use this quote to possibly introduce our interview. It shows us how people are beginning to eat organically because they are trying to avoid all of the negative things that are put into our food today.
Quote 2- “The organization’s advocacy of artisanal foodstuffs and small-scale production also runs the risk of creating a movement limited to those who can afford it.”
One part of our project that we are trying to include is a comparison of grocery receipts. One receipt of someone who eats and shops organically, compared to a person who just buys any produce. We also included some interview questions dealing with expenses and costs for the organic lifestyle. This quote would be a good introduction to that section of our project. We can either prove this statement wrong, or agree with it based on our findings.
Quote 3- “By approaching how and what we eat in a more thoughtful and informed way, we also begin to think about the society in which we live through the same lens. Following this logic, Slow Food ‘asserts the absolute centrality of the role of food (a centrality which perhaps has been lost) if one wishes to interpret—and perhaps influence—the dynamics that underlie our society and our world’”
This quote shows that once we start to think about eating healthy and making lifestyle changes, we will then begin to think about the rest of our society the same way. This quote really shows how much what we eat not only affects ourselves, but our community around us. This quote would be a great way to prove that eating organically can help your life in many different ways.
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