Thoughts About Class

Through this course I have learned to better incorporate sources. This will greatly help me with my future writing endeavors. However I must say I learned a lot more about food and the way it is produced. Prior to this class I had some idea about the way it was produced. I never before had the desire to find out how the food I was eating made or produced. After watching Food Inc. in this class I learned about the not so glamorous side of meat production. I thought it was disgusting how the animals and workers are treated. I also learned a great deal about how food is marketed to us. The chip article that we read really resonated with me. I had never thought about how chips could relate to socio-economic class. This to me is still quite strange. However it does make sense. There are significant cost differences amongst different chip brands. The higher priced chips aren't always accessible to lower class people. However when I am eating chips I rarely notice the difference between the cheap chips and the expensive chips. To me a chip is a chip. Although I have learned a lot about food and food production I don't think that my eating habits will change that much. I will still continue to eat meat because that was how I was raised. However I might start thinking about where my food comes from when I am eating. While grocery shopping I might try to do more research and buy foods where I am able to identify where they came from. All in all I thought that this was a very interesting writing course, and one that i'm glad I took.