Friday, September 25, 2009

this week's (brief) notes 9/29

9/29

• Why do we care?
• knowledge gap- public education
o education
• choice – systemic/structures
o make other choices available

- how are we going to pay for healthy food in public schools?
o Farmers- low income, they can’t even afford to buy the food they produce, motivation
o Consumers- low income
o Whose responsibility is this to make people healthy?
• Self, community, government, business
• When we take govt route we often end up with complex problems
- Where are our priorities
- Civileats.com
- Utilitarian ethical responsibility
- People have a right to healthy food
- Human rights and responsibilities
- Food as an addiction

Bring list of questions, who do we need to talk to, what would you ask these people?

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