HW - 6/5/13

There is no formal homework besides continuing to prepare for the final exam on Tuesday and working to make sure that Assignment 40 is complete by the end of class on Friday.

(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.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Quality of mantra/ rules	Statements are all clear and well-reasoned.	Statements are consistently clear and well-reasoned.	Statements are logical but occasionally vague.	Statements are overly illogical or indefensible.
Support of mantra/ rules	Thoroughly supports all statements with detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.	Consistently supports all statements with detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.	Mostly supports all statements with detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.	Occasionally supports all statements with detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence.