An Article About Authenticity of Organic Foods

I found this article which talks about the USDA and the problems of the label “organic” and how growers are cheating to get the organic tag.

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Questions to Consider for Thursday, November 1: 3rd Blog Assignment

While you are watching the short films on Thursday, consider some of the following issues. Then write a short blog entry (200-500 w) with your initial thoughts on one of the films.
Questions and Issues surrounding the Kurosawa and Animatrix films:
1. In “Sunshine through Rain,” a boy witnesses the wedding procession of the fox-spirits. In doing [...]

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For Monday, November 5: Water in Ethics and Politics

Readings for Monday, November 5:
Directions: Please watch the video and read the Vandana Shiva selection from the library reserves. Then choose one of the other articles below and skim it for the basics of the situation in that country.
“Dirty Aid, Dirty Water,” a video documentary about water privatization by the British NGO (non-governmental organization) [...]

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Link to a short Simpsons TV clip (about meat eating)

This seems to fit in with all that we discussed in the last class!
Here is the link! Enjoy:
The Simpsons, “Meat and You: Partners in Freedom,” a video starring Troy McClure
Or, if it dosen’t work, here’s a link to the same clip (although, it’s crappier)
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/41981/detail/
<3,
Kristine

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Blog Numero Dos!!

     For my 15 minutes of observation I sat quietly in a corner of the (N) train next to a window trying to hide from the people next to me that might get a glimpse of what I was writing and become uncomfortable.
     The first thing that caught my attention was the rattling of what seemed [...]

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Blog 2: Bleecker Street

A Sunday afternoon on Bleecker Street
Everything I see:
A ton of cars and people, blue and red brick, a green sign “Aphrodisia”, a pink sign “Surf City squeeze”, a black bike, plants hanging, plants sitting, “fish of the day” chalkboard sign, grey and black roofs, my neighbors lace curtain, air conditioning units, black gum spots on [...]

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Blog 1

I am far from Puritanical. I grew up in hippy southern California where dirt is called earth and grass is not for sitting on. My mentors and teachers were proud to call themselves rebels and only answered to their first name relinquishing standard practices of classroom authority. Nature was a thing on a pedestal to [...]

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Blog #2: Observations

I am on the East side of Manhattan standing on the sidewalk on 67th street.  I am about a half of a block west of 1st avenue.  It is around 10:10 am.   The sun is climbing the cloudless sky.  It feels very much like June or July instead of October.  It’s going to be a [...]

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Regarding your egalitarian principles

After our last discussion, I wanted to show you why you shouldn’t take your own egalitarian ethics for granted. Because of them, you are part of a planetary history, both Western and non-Western, that has struggled to establish equality as a political reality against the forces below.

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“Nature” and Systems of Social Hierarchy

Below are some classic examples, from Western texts and history, of the idea of nature being used to establish rulership, superiority, and right to violence of one kind of person over another. This sometimes manifests in theories that certain kinds of people are “naturally” slaves, children, animals, biological errors, or machines. The list is by [...]

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