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This is the class blog for the Spring 2011 Environmental Studies Capstone at the College of Charleston
Saturday, April 23, 2011
This Class
I am sure that we all have benefited from this class in some way. I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the indiscretions of the American food industry and the extravagance that we live in. I had known for quite some time that the way we eat is different from others but I did not realize the expanse of poor decisions that we as a society make. I think that if more classes like this existed then more Americans would try to change the way we farm, process and eat food. I know that seeing Zach farm and reading about authors that had taken steps to change their own life style was very inspirational. I always wanted to have an herb garden but now I wish for a vegetable garden (let me get a house first). Still, despite the constant hammering we have done at undermining the way Americans eat I still have to be hopeful that the going green movement will expand. My mother has started a garden and constantly discusses the fact that subsidies are causing the "corn syrup sin." Today on our hamburgers we had ketchup with a "no corn syrup" sign on it and ingredients I understood in it. I have been constantly on the search for healthier granola bars and I found one with no chemicals at all. even Oprah has started to think green in the kitchen by getting her viewers to buy recycled kitchen utensils. I think if we can get more famous people or more people in general listening the green disease will spread like wild fire until then good luck Zach, I'll think of you when I start my own garden and maybe I'll get some neighbors to start one too.
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