Kara, Warren, Virg, and Lori (absent from picture: Melissa)
Friday, November 21, 2008
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Kara, Warren, Virg, and Lori (absent from picture: Melissa)
“If you’re standing in a field in Iowa, there’s an immense amount of food being grown, none of it edible. The commodity corn, nobody can eat. It must be processed before we can eat it. It’s a rawmaterial—it’s a feedstock for all these other processes. And the irony is that an Iowa farmer can no longer feed himself.” --Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
King Corn - The Movie
“And what I've said is top priority is making sure people are able to get enough to eat. If it turns out we need to make changes in our ethanol policy to help people get something to eat, that has got to be the step we take…We have rising food prices around the United States. In other countries, we're seeing riots because of the lack of food supply, so this is something we're going to have to deal with." - Barack Obama (D-IL) on Meet the Press, Sunday, May 4, 2008
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Hi All,
Thanks for using my class as one of your 'beta-test sites.' For what it is worth, here is some feedback/thoughts:
1. About halfway into the slides, there was a story of a little girl affected by NAFTA, etc., and I think the whole concept of relaying data/information through a personal story like this can be very
powerful. My only suggestion would be to build in her story from the start, perhaps, and using it throughout the presentation -- sort of as a "victim/hero" symbol people can relate back to.
2. There was one slide that quoted "Wikipedia" as the source. This is just a personal bias, but I feel that if you can backup your data with a source other than Wiki, it would be more credible...to me, anyway.
3. In the latter half of the presentation when they discussed NAFTA's and the US's corn policy's effects on Mexico's farmers (and about the rise of maquiladoras and WalMart), my first question was whether or not this is a "natural progression" from an agrarian to an industrial to a consumerist society for Mexico. So, however you can more clearly address that would be helpful.
Overall, GREAT project! Best of luck with it.
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