This is a forum for discussion. You can see the other students' paragraph. You may compliment and criticize their paragraph. This is where you summarize the Food Security article. My paragraph is as shown below.
My article is from the World Food Programme; the programme is inviting students and people who want to be a film maker to create a video about world hunger through the international video competition, called "Hunger Bytes". According to Drew Barrymore, Ambassador Against Hunger, states that "Creativity and a desire to benefit the material, social, and spiritual welfare of humanity are a powerful combination to add in the video."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
How Food Shapes our Cities
Write in a short paragraph explaining the video saw from Carolyn Steel and mention three pieces of evidence you collected from the video. Imagine you have one minute to explain the video.
My paragraph is as shown below.
In Carolyn Steel's introduction to the presentation, she first stated a question, "How do we feed a city?" She then states a that this is a question that is it occasionally asked. The video is basically about where food comes from, for instance, just like meat and chicken coming in from the north to London, from Scotland and Wales. (Carolyn states that animals enter the city) I have collected pieces of evidence from the video that there are approximately 7 billion carnivores (people) in the world. As plenty of meat is consumed, 19 million hectares of forest is destroyed each year, and 20 million hectares of existing arable is degraded. In addition, 1/2 of food produced in the U.S. is discarded. Carolyn also uses connections with different languages like "utopia for good place or no place" and "sitopia for food place". She believes that the world is a sitopia because we have plenty of food to produce and it is sufficient to feed the whole world, but the food is unequally distributed. In the slide that Carolyn used for what sitopia looks like looks very foundational because a food place shows a place that has food, whether cooking in a residence, in a restaurant, etc. Therefore I repeat what the the presentation is about like in the introduction, Carolyn talks about answering the question, "Where does food come from?" given with facts and statistics.
My paragraph is as shown below.
In Carolyn Steel's introduction to the presentation, she first stated a question, "How do we feed a city?" She then states a that this is a question that is it occasionally asked. The video is basically about where food comes from, for instance, just like meat and chicken coming in from the north to London, from Scotland and Wales. (Carolyn states that animals enter the city) I have collected pieces of evidence from the video that there are approximately 7 billion carnivores (people) in the world. As plenty of meat is consumed, 19 million hectares of forest is destroyed each year, and 20 million hectares of existing arable is degraded. In addition, 1/2 of food produced in the U.S. is discarded. Carolyn also uses connections with different languages like "utopia for good place or no place" and "sitopia for food place". She believes that the world is a sitopia because we have plenty of food to produce and it is sufficient to feed the whole world, but the food is unequally distributed. In the slide that Carolyn used for what sitopia looks like looks very foundational because a food place shows a place that has food, whether cooking in a residence, in a restaurant, etc. Therefore I repeat what the the presentation is about like in the introduction, Carolyn talks about answering the question, "Where does food come from?" given with facts and statistics.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Food Security Banquet Questions
1. How did you feel about the banquet?
Answer: I take pity on the people who are in the green zone (low-income) because they only eat a bowl of rice and a tiny bottle of water.
2. Do you think it is fair that the world is divided in this way? Why or why not?
Answer: No, it is not fair that the world is divided this way because there are plenty of poor people waiting to be fed, and they perish after a few days because of starvation.
3. Do you think the people who got the big meal should help the others? Why or why not?
Answer: People in the blue (middle-income) and the black (high-income) should help the people in green (low-income) because it is stated that 50% of the world's population is in the low-income state. People who are rich tend to not care about poor people dying: they do not donate food at all. Therefore, it would be helpful to either donate cash or food to help poor people escape from starvation.
4. Do you think the cause of having a big percentage of people in the low-income group is that they do not hard? If you have other causes of this, why do you think that there is a very high percentage of people in the low-income group?
Answer: The cause of poor people in the low-income group is possibly yes, not working hard. They tend to get fired from their companies, or maybe their companies tend to give them a low-income. People who are in the green zone desires to earn a higher income, so they keep searching for a new job that pays.
5. How do our personal choices affect the world's unequal distribution of resources?
Answer: Our personal choices affect the world's unequal distribution of resources as we gain food. Some people in fast food restaurants tend to discard their leftovers. However, people in the green zone do not want to eat somebody else's leftovers. We fortunate people have their personal choices and do only seem to care about themselves, not others. We fortunate people keep our minds on other situations and events. Thus, the answer to this question is that we fortunate people DO NOT care about others who are unfortunate. The personal choices we make only affects ourselves, not the poor people of this world.
6. What might we all do to bring a fairer distribution of resources?
Answer: What we can do to help bring a fairer distribution of resources could possibly be, donation. Definitely donation of food. Make sure that it is non-perishable or last for a long duration, so that the unfortunate people may eat it, without going to be ill. It takes time to do this occasionally, but we can do this as a habit.
Answer: I take pity on the people who are in the green zone (low-income) because they only eat a bowl of rice and a tiny bottle of water.
2. Do you think it is fair that the world is divided in this way? Why or why not?
Answer: No, it is not fair that the world is divided this way because there are plenty of poor people waiting to be fed, and they perish after a few days because of starvation.
3. Do you think the people who got the big meal should help the others? Why or why not?
Answer: People in the blue (middle-income) and the black (high-income) should help the people in green (low-income) because it is stated that 50% of the world's population is in the low-income state. People who are rich tend to not care about poor people dying: they do not donate food at all. Therefore, it would be helpful to either donate cash or food to help poor people escape from starvation.
4. Do you think the cause of having a big percentage of people in the low-income group is that they do not hard? If you have other causes of this, why do you think that there is a very high percentage of people in the low-income group?
Answer: The cause of poor people in the low-income group is possibly yes, not working hard. They tend to get fired from their companies, or maybe their companies tend to give them a low-income. People who are in the green zone desires to earn a higher income, so they keep searching for a new job that pays.
5. How do our personal choices affect the world's unequal distribution of resources?
Answer: Our personal choices affect the world's unequal distribution of resources as we gain food. Some people in fast food restaurants tend to discard their leftovers. However, people in the green zone do not want to eat somebody else's leftovers. We fortunate people have their personal choices and do only seem to care about themselves, not others. We fortunate people keep our minds on other situations and events. Thus, the answer to this question is that we fortunate people DO NOT care about others who are unfortunate. The personal choices we make only affects ourselves, not the poor people of this world.
6. What might we all do to bring a fairer distribution of resources?
Answer: What we can do to help bring a fairer distribution of resources could possibly be, donation. Definitely donation of food. Make sure that it is non-perishable or last for a long duration, so that the unfortunate people may eat it, without going to be ill. It takes time to do this occasionally, but we can do this as a habit.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Wiki for Food Security Presentation
This Wiki is for the Food Security Presentation. Here, you can send information to others in Moodle. This presentation will not be graded, but remarks will be shown after you do the presentation. Remember in the presentation, you must memorize your key points (or improvise) NOT reading and NOT using note cards. Note that the comments in this Wiki are chat logs. You may see other students' contributions about other questions that they have answered to learn more, but you cannot use them because they have different questions to answer, and you may have false answers for that question if you plagiarize. Therefore, keep your information into one family.
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