(Final) Assignment #40 - Food Rules
Introduction
You’re 18 (or you will be soon
enough) and in the near future you will likely gain greater independence. One
aspect of independence and choice that we have discussed throughout the
semester was your control over the food you purchase and consume. As time
passes, you will only have more say in your eating – whether it’s what you eat,
where it comes from, how much of it you eat, how it’s prepared, or how much you
pay. Thus, before you go out into the wide world of independent eating it could
be useful to take a few minutes to hash out what you believe that you
should eat. Saying that you should only eat vegan, organic, local food grown by
people at the farmers market that you know personally and that you know for
sure have happy, fulfilling lives with good wages sounds really nice – but it’s
also a bunch of crap.
So the question remains… what
should YOU eat?
Procedure
1. Develop a three sentence food
mantra (a mantra is a commonly used saying or phrase). Think of the mantra as a
statement of goals of how you think that you should eat. For example, in FoodRules: An Eater’s Manual our old friend Michael Pollan states his mantra as
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Your mantra should be not more than twenty-five words in length.
The mantra only needs to contain
what you think you should eat… don’t worry about the why (yet).
2. Explain the rationale behind
your mantra.
3. Develop a set of 5 to 7 rules
that you can follow to abide by your mantra. The rules should be more specific
recommendations for actions like “Eat only foods that will eventually rot.”
Your rules do not need to be
all-inclusive, as in your 5 or 7 rules do not need to cover every single thing
you need to do to uphold your mantra or your desired goals for eating.
4. For each rule that you
develop, write a paragraph supporting that rule. Your support should connect to
material that you learned in class over the course of the semester.
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Mastery –
4
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Proficient
– 3
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Satisfactory
– 2
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Needs
Revision – 1
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Quality of mantra/ rules
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Statements are all clear and well-reasoned.
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Statements are consistently clear and well-reasoned.
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Statements are logical but occasionally vague.
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Statements are overly illogical or
indefensible.
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Support of mantra/ rules
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Thoroughly supports all statements with
detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.
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Consistently supports all statements with
detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.
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Mostly supports all statements with
detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.
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Occasionally supports all statements with
detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.
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