Where does the produce from Vons come from?
I had earlier read that is very difficult to track down where produce comes from in grocery stores online. I myself, had that same problem. I could not track down where Vons produce comes from in San Diego.
http://www.vons.com/IFL/Grocery/Product-Recalls
Vons - product recalls - us
Vons - Find a store near you
10/21/09
I thought this would be the most helpful out of all the websites i found, but it really didn't help too much on what i needed to know. It had a short summary about Peanut butter and where it's made, but that's also not what i exactly wanted to know.
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-vons-companies-incorporated
The Vons Companies, Inc.: Information from Answers.com
Answers.com - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more
10/21/09
This had more of an overview about Vons and where it's come from since 1906. Although i thought there was still some interesting things to know in this article.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Food around the world
Kelsey Murphy
10/12/09
Everyone knows that food is a necessity to survive. But what most people don’t know is what’s in the food they’re eating or where it comes from. Like myself, I don’t always pay attention to what I’m eating or what could be in it that could be causing some kind of disease from the pesticides. Although this is an intense issue in the cycle of food processing, I would like to discuss more about where our food comes from and where it’s going in my intro. Because do we really know? The US is known for a supplying a good amount of food to Americans. After all we are the fattest Nation. Even “Fed Up” mentioned how the US is over producing food and it’s not being distributed enough.
We’re always hearing about starving children on the news while we sit in front of our TV eating Big Macs and Super Gulps. In my opinion I feel we’re being rather stingy and selfish about our food and that it should be evenly distributed throughout the world so there wont have to be such a thing as starving. I honestly don’t believe that it would be that hard to ship some food over to another country. Yes it may be expensive to bring over but there has to be a way to get around the cost. Maybe I’m wrong. But we’ll never know till we try.
My special assignment group is Garden Layout. A part of garden layout is the different types of farming such as monocultures and polycultures. Monoculture is where one crop is grown and produced over a large area of land from a different variety of farmers. While polyculture is multiple crops in the same space with much more diversity of natural farming. Farmers involved in polyculture are also more likely to travel with their food to sell it at places such as the Farmers Market. From both the movie “Fed Up” and the reading we were assigned in class, it had mentioned how growing smaller community gardens would bring together more organic farming and healthier people. As
well as saving money. Even though this is a good idea, there are places such as New York where people cannot and will not find a place to farm their vegetables and fruit. This is causing people to do what’s convenient for them, which is driving to the nearest grocery store and buying their more so unhealthy food.
According to the EPA, “Before a company can sell or distribute any pesticide in the United States of America, EPA must review studies on the pesticide to determine that it will not pose unreasonable risks to human health or the environment.” I thought that this was interesting because we still hear about these different diseases that are caused by pesticides such as, brain cancer, Parkinson’s disease, leukemia, lymphoma, and cancers of the stomach and prostate. . If these are still occurring after the EPA has “reviewed” the health of our food, how can we trust them and the food we eat? Not only is it a health hazard to people, animals, and even soil, but mostly importantly the children. As their bodies grow then need the right nutrients, and with the different chemicals they’re eating, their hormone cycle can become messed up leading to an unhealthy life as they get older. Once pesticides are used in farming, it spreads through the soil and is there to remain for the future generations. Even after rainfall those chemicals from the fields can be washed into rivers. So since there are no pesticides in organic farming, not only is it keeping us healthier, but also it’s not polluting our water.
Although it may seem like organic farming is the best, there are some down sides to it like low productivity. Another well-known con against organic farming is the price. At most organic grocery stores prices can range from 50-100 percent more than a traditional grocery store, which not everyone can afford in this economy. I think this relates a lot to my senior project because my partner and I will be creating a broacher with information on where you can buy organic/healthy food at a decent price since it seems to be an issue for many people. We also plan on taking lots of high quality pictures of the organic food we make, and even having a map of where you can eat healthy in San Diego for a cheap decent price. I feel there is no doubt that organic farming is the better way to go considering the pros overrule the cons, but people should always know there is alternatives to eating healthy if money becomes a huge issue.
*http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/food/govt.htm
How the Government Regulates Pesticides | Pesticides | US EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* http://ask.metafilter.com/98669/Could-we-feed-the-current-world-population-using-purely-organic-farming-methods
Could we feed the current world population using purely organic farming methods? | Ask Metafilter
Ask Metafilter | Community Weblog
* http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/update-2005-05-24/pesticides-in-food.htm
Pesticides in Food
Clean Funny Cartoons / Environmental Issues ... on Grinning Planet
Kelsey Murphy
10/12/09
Everyone knows that food is a necessity to survive. But what most people don’t know is what’s in the food they’re eating or where it comes from. Like myself, I don’t always pay attention to what I’m eating or what could be in it that could be causing some kind of disease from the pesticides. Although this is an intense issue in the cycle of food processing, I would like to discuss more about where our food comes from and where it’s going in my intro. Because do we really know? The US is known for a supplying a good amount of food to Americans. After all we are the fattest Nation. Even “Fed Up” mentioned how the US is over producing food and it’s not being distributed enough.
We’re always hearing about starving children on the news while we sit in front of our TV eating Big Macs and Super Gulps. In my opinion I feel we’re being rather stingy and selfish about our food and that it should be evenly distributed throughout the world so there wont have to be such a thing as starving. I honestly don’t believe that it would be that hard to ship some food over to another country. Yes it may be expensive to bring over but there has to be a way to get around the cost. Maybe I’m wrong. But we’ll never know till we try.
My special assignment group is Garden Layout. A part of garden layout is the different types of farming such as monocultures and polycultures. Monoculture is where one crop is grown and produced over a large area of land from a different variety of farmers. While polyculture is multiple crops in the same space with much more diversity of natural farming. Farmers involved in polyculture are also more likely to travel with their food to sell it at places such as the Farmers Market. From both the movie “Fed Up” and the reading we were assigned in class, it had mentioned how growing smaller community gardens would bring together more organic farming and healthier people. As
well as saving money. Even though this is a good idea, there are places such as New York where people cannot and will not find a place to farm their vegetables and fruit. This is causing people to do what’s convenient for them, which is driving to the nearest grocery store and buying their more so unhealthy food.
According to the EPA, “Before a company can sell or distribute any pesticide in the United States of America, EPA must review studies on the pesticide to determine that it will not pose unreasonable risks to human health or the environment.” I thought that this was interesting because we still hear about these different diseases that are caused by pesticides such as, brain cancer, Parkinson’s disease, leukemia, lymphoma, and cancers of the stomach and prostate. . If these are still occurring after the EPA has “reviewed” the health of our food, how can we trust them and the food we eat? Not only is it a health hazard to people, animals, and even soil, but mostly importantly the children. As their bodies grow then need the right nutrients, and with the different chemicals they’re eating, their hormone cycle can become messed up leading to an unhealthy life as they get older. Once pesticides are used in farming, it spreads through the soil and is there to remain for the future generations. Even after rainfall those chemicals from the fields can be washed into rivers. So since there are no pesticides in organic farming, not only is it keeping us healthier, but also it’s not polluting our water.
Although it may seem like organic farming is the best, there are some down sides to it like low productivity. Another well-known con against organic farming is the price. At most organic grocery stores prices can range from 50-100 percent more than a traditional grocery store, which not everyone can afford in this economy. I think this relates a lot to my senior project because my partner and I will be creating a broacher with information on where you can buy organic/healthy food at a decent price since it seems to be an issue for many people. We also plan on taking lots of high quality pictures of the organic food we make, and even having a map of where you can eat healthy in San Diego for a cheap decent price. I feel there is no doubt that organic farming is the better way to go considering the pros overrule the cons, but people should always know there is alternatives to eating healthy if money becomes a huge issue.
*http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/food/govt.htm
How the Government Regulates Pesticides | Pesticides | US EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* http://ask.metafilter.com/98669/Could-we-feed-the-current-world-population-using-purely-organic-farming-methods
Could we feed the current world population using purely organic farming methods? | Ask Metafilter
Ask Metafilter | Community Weblog
* http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/update-2005-05-24/pesticides-in-food.htm
Pesticides in Food
Clean Funny Cartoons / Environmental Issues ... on Grinning Planet
Friday, October 9, 2009
Annotated Bibliography
www.rocfund.org/blogs/michael-r-rdimock-s-blog/california-mayors-newsom-and-dellums-challenge-nations-cities-on-food-and-farming-2
California Mayors Newsom and Dellums Challenge Nations cities on Food and Farming - Roots of change
Home-Roots of change
www.sdfoodnotlawn.com/1in10.php
San Diego Food not lawns
Sustainable Food and Food Justice/Security for San Diego
Community Garden Campaigns "Take Action"
"1 in 10 for 2010" promotes policies leading to local food shed sustainability in San Diego through advocacy,education, and organizing.
Food Waste composting and green waste recycling program.
California Mayors Newsom and Dellums Challenge Nations cities on Food and Farming - Roots of change
Home-Roots of change
www.sdfoodnotlawn.com/1in10.php
San Diego Food not lawns
Sustainable Food and Food Justice/Security for San Diego
Community Garden Campaigns "Take Action"
"1 in 10 for 2010" promotes policies leading to local food shed sustainability in San Diego through advocacy,education, and organizing.
Food Waste composting and green waste recycling program.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Socratic Seminar Reflection
I thought that today was an overall successful discussion towards the article we read, but it definitely could have gone deeper in thought and more interesting. There we're a lot of good points made, and having different view points/opinions really made the topic more interesting. It made people want to jump in and say something rather than sitting back and listening.
The point that I had made was towards someone else's point when they had said we need to educate the students in school so they can go back home, and tell their parents to "start being eco-friendly" or "start a garden." I disagreed because I know personally as a student learning about gardening, I don't want to go home and change my everyday lifestyle just to grow some vegetables or save some of my shower water to water plants. I know i had said earlier that i don't really care about the food i eat or the prices of gas and etc. but it's not necessarily that at all. I had just miss spoken. Another student had made a point how it's not the fact that we don't care, it how we don't have the resources or time. We had talked about 14% of the food we eat goes to waste, so why not save the food, put into a separate bin (like recycling), and what if we had a compost truck come pick it up?
And the students who "don't care" or are "lazy" like myself, agreed that they would save the food we don't eat and would put it outside for the compost truck to come pick it up (if we had one).
There was also something in the reading that i had thought kind of contradicted itself. He mention how this is the first time in generations that America has actually cared about food. Not only the prices, but the health of it. BUT i thought to myself, and America is also known for being the fattest Nation. So if we really cared about the food we eat that much, wouldn't we be eating healthier? or trying to buy good food for a good price? Because when you go through the drive-thru, you don't stop and ask about the calories and fattening in the food you ordered; you grab it and go. It's also cheap and convenient which seems to be a big thing for America.
Maybe i'm wrong or read it wrong. It's just something that caught my eye.
The point that I had made was towards someone else's point when they had said we need to educate the students in school so they can go back home, and tell their parents to "start being eco-friendly" or "start a garden." I disagreed because I know personally as a student learning about gardening, I don't want to go home and change my everyday lifestyle just to grow some vegetables or save some of my shower water to water plants. I know i had said earlier that i don't really care about the food i eat or the prices of gas and etc. but it's not necessarily that at all. I had just miss spoken. Another student had made a point how it's not the fact that we don't care, it how we don't have the resources or time. We had talked about 14% of the food we eat goes to waste, so why not save the food, put into a separate bin (like recycling), and what if we had a compost truck come pick it up?
And the students who "don't care" or are "lazy" like myself, agreed that they would save the food we don't eat and would put it outside for the compost truck to come pick it up (if we had one).
There was also something in the reading that i had thought kind of contradicted itself. He mention how this is the first time in generations that America has actually cared about food. Not only the prices, but the health of it. BUT i thought to myself, and America is also known for being the fattest Nation. So if we really cared about the food we eat that much, wouldn't we be eating healthier? or trying to buy good food for a good price? Because when you go through the drive-thru, you don't stop and ask about the calories and fattening in the food you ordered; you grab it and go. It's also cheap and convenient which seems to be a big thing for America.
Maybe i'm wrong or read it wrong. It's just something that caught my eye.
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