Read Foer’s opening sections and then stop to consider your own less investigated relationship to food. On a word doc or notebook, free-write or brainstorm about your specific familial, cultural and historical relationship to food . Then reflect on you personal relationship to eating and eating animals in particular Drawing from ideas you developed in your free-write or brainstorm, answer the following and number your responses:
Initial post:
1) What factors contribute to your understanding of eating that relates to your cultural or family history and background. What assumptions does your family carry collectively about food- where it comes from and where or how to get it. What are the ‘rules’ around food and eating food- spoken and unspoken.
2) What are your personal values around food? What is most important to you when choosing the food you eat: cost, lack of waste, taste, convenience, health, something else?
3) How might the above relate to or inform your feelings about animals and food. What does your culture, family and your own inner voice say about eating animals? Do they align somewhat or is there conflict or tension between these “voices.”
