HW11

Activist (do something to build a movement for better food - consider the Food, Inc website, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Slow Food Movement, and the School Food issue)


With my project, I made a flier to address the points about fast food that I found most important, I made the flier attractive and able to catch the reader's eye. I passed it out among the adults on the street, there were a lot of business people who were on their lunch break, I figured that adults more so than teenagers could change their mindset and decide to invest in a better lunch. We passed them out outside of a chinese restaurant and a subway sandwich shop. I feel this project was effective, because it caught the eye of the passers-by and we talked to each individual who was interested in the project. We explained to them the major points about their food, and what was really in it. We explained animal cruelty, disgusting ingredients, and what they could do to change their foodways. We tried to get them informed as to what was in their food. We did come into a small problem with the manager of 'Press' he said that he sold chicken and that this might hurt his business, we respectively moved. He told us that he was a strong supporter of free range and etc. So I don't understand why he should feel we were endangering his business, I felt we were helping him, because his establishment seemed to be a really hip health savvy restaurant.
All in all, I believed it was a good project, that if nothing else, helped to inform and educate.